https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259678
--- Comment #27 from Andrius Štikonas <andr...@stikonas.eu> --- (In reply to Alex Abakumov from comment #26) > (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. Indeed. Well, we are doing a privileged operation. It's not exactly what is asked in the original report but it's better than before when the whole application was running as root (which caused various issues with dbus, wayland, etc...) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
