https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387950
Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelac...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|--- |DUPLICATE
Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
--- Comment #1 from Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelac...@kde.org> ---
(In reply to Bo Weaver from comment #0)
> Today I updated my system and found that Dolphin and Kate no longer run
> under root. I look and saw that this is considered a security issue. As a
> Pen Tester I run under root during testing. I do understand that normally
> you would never run under root. When you logged in as root then why is it a
> problem accessing files with dolphin? If the problem is these is a security
> hole from a normal user account because root can access files with Dolphin
> then fix the problem don't just break it and turn it off this doesn't "fix"
> anything.
No, the problem is that Xorg is not secure. See
https://cgit.kde.org/kate.git/commit/?id=9adcebd3c2e476c8a32e9b455cc99f46b0e12a7e
> Dear developers people need to access system files from time to time and
> change those files.
Kate already prompts for the root password whenever you edit a system file.
Dolphin will soon, hopefully.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 152150 ***
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