Bug 379927 - Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater
Summary: Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 179678
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 17.04.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2017-05-17 03:19 UTC by Jonwsb
Modified: 2017-05-17 08:36 UTC (History)
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Description Jonwsb 2017-05-17 03:19:32 UTC 
Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater and does nothing to actually make a system more secure. Also there is still a right click option to open folders as root which does not work anymore until this is reverted.
Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-05-17 08:36:02 UTC 
(In reply to Jonwsb from comment #0)
> Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater and does nothing to
> actually make a system more secure. 

It fixes a root escalation attack, how is that not making the system more secure.

> Also there is still a right click option
> to open folders as root which does not work anymore until this is reverted.

That's something that your distribution added, there is nothing we can do for that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179678 ***