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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 264947] partitionmanager / kdesu : cannot run with root
From:       Volker Lanz <vl () fidra ! de>
Date:       2011-01-31 17:33:15
Message-ID: 20110131173315.886ED7CE22 () immanuel ! kde ! org
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--- Comment #7 from Volker Lanz <vl fidra de>  2011-01-31 18:33:00 ---
The former suggestion would lead to a special case just for kdesu in the code.
That would be unfortunate, but I'll consider it if we don't reach any other
solution here.

The latter obviously does not work:

$ kdesu ls -l
kdesu: Unknown option 'l'.                                                      
kdesu: Use --help to get a list of available command line options.              
As far as I can remember it, the kdesu "ls -l" approach worked when I
implemented the code in question in KDE Partition Manager early in 2010. It
still works with the other three privilege-elevation-methods, afaict.

My suspicion is that maybe one of the patches to kdesu to change its escaping
behaviour unintentionally broke this. Is this possible?

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