https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259678
--- Comment #28 from Alex Abakumov <abakumov.alexa...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #27) > (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...) Great! Most likely, the current approach is the best that could be. It was just confusing to still see the sudo password request on startup :) Thank you so much for the clarification! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
