https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259678

--- Comment #25 from Andrius Štikonas <andr...@stikonas.eu> ---
(In reply to Alex Abakumov from comment #24)
> (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #23)
> > (In reply to abakumov.alexandr from comment #22)
> > > (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #20)
> > > > The GUI of KDE Partition Manager can now run as unprivileged user.
> > > > 
> > > > So far code is still in kauth branches of kpmcore and partitionmanager 
> > > > but
> > > > it's getting to the state where testing and reviews would be useful.
> > > > Especially, security review of the helper would be appreciated as it is 
> > > > used
> > > > quite differently from normal KAuth helper.
> > > 
> > > Could you elaborate how to run without the kdesu request on app launch,
> > > please?
> > 
> > You just run it as "partitionmanager". You'll need version 4.0 or later.
> 
> According to its About window, I have a version of 20.12.2. But it still
> requires kdesu on startup.

That's not kdesu. That's polkit. partitionmanager now runs as unprivileged user
and polkit is used to start a small non-GUI daemon running as root.

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