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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Dolphin opening a text file as root with Kwrite.
From:       yahoo-pier_andreit <pier_andreit () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2010-02-18 19:25:18
Message-ID: 4B7D941E.8020907 () yahoo ! it
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Dale ha scritto:
> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>> On Thursday 18 February 2010 10:30:51 Dale wrote:
>>    
>>> I have Dolphin, the replacement for Konqueror, set up to run as root.
>>> When I go to the "K menu" and select Dolphin, it asks for the root
>>> password and I enter it in.  Dolphin opens fine, no problems.  The
>>> problem starts when I go somewhere that requires root privileges.  If
>>> I try to enter the /root directory, I get this error at the bottom of
>>> Dolphin:
>>>
>>> "Can not start process.  Can not talk to Klauncher.  The name
>>> org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any service files."
>>>      
>> It's intended behaviour.  Apparently running a gui for text-editing has some
>> possible security issues - don't ask me for details, I don't know them - so
>> it's discouraged.  I'm sure there will be ways of side-stepping this, but
>> since I don't know whether I'd then be opening a can of worms I've accepted
>> that and come up with work-arounds.
>>
>> If I know the path of the file to edit,  I open a root konsole and type
>> 'kwrite path/to/file'.  If I don't, I start dolphin in a root konsole - which
>> doesn't bring that error message.  Either way, I accept that there could be
>> some vulnerability, so I close the session as soon as I have finished.
>>
>> Anne
>>    
> 
> I see that it could be a security concern but it is done locally, not 
> over some remote connection or something, and I have to edit config 
> files as root a lot anyway.  Basically, I'm going to have to edit them 
> as root regardless of what I use to do it.  I prefer it to be something 
> that can be done easily so I chose to do it the same way I always have 
> done it.
> 
> It sounds like KDE is getting a little to much like windoze to me.  
> Maybe it is time for me to start looking for a different GUI.  After 
> all, if I can't keep my system up to date, running Kwrite as root is 
> going to be the least of my problems.  This just seems to add to issues 
> I already have with KDE.
> 

usually I use konqueror3 for this, it works well with kwrite3

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