| Summary: | Kate fails to privilege escalate when saving root-only files | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | Kotori Itsuka <cmdrkotori2> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | qt6 |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 24.01.90 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Screencast of saving a config file to /etc | ||
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 479955 *** |
Created attachment 165117 [details] Screencast of saving a config file to /etc SUMMARY Kate fails to privilege escalate when saving files under /etc STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. kate /etc/somefile 2. File->Save 3. Type password, press enter OBSERVED RESULT Prompt about unable to save EXPECTED RESULT File saved SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch testing with kde-unstable repo (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.92.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.248.0 Qt Version: 6.7.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It has been failing the last few months or so. I know that it worked in Plasma 5, I've been editing system configs this way for ages. For now I have to sudo vim from a console.