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

--- Comment #26 from Alex Abakumov <abakumov.alexa...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #25)
> (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.

Oh, I think I've got it. sudo password is still required on startup not for the
GUI process (partitionmanager), but for a daemon.

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