Dropping kdesudo

[Aaron Honeycutt]

it's a bad idea to use kdesudo or gksudo to open a GUI app.

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Dale Trombley <buzzmandt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm one of those that always assumed anything graphic needed kdesudo (as
> opposed to gksudo). Am I wrong in that assumption?
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at kubuntu.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello everybody,
>> >
>> > kdesudo is a tool currently installed in Kubuntu that I believe still
>> > uses Qt/KDE 3 or at minimum Qt/KDE 4 libraries. The upstream (us,
>> > actually...) doesn't seem to have been committed to it since 2011,
>> > leaving users with a vulnerable kdesudo application (kdesu has had
>> > multiple CVEs issued against it). At this point I think it's more of a
>> > liability to maintain than to drop, and following the mail to drop Qt 4
>> > in Debian Buster[1], I would like to request feedback and see if anyone
>> > plans on resurrecting kdesudo or if we should just use kdesu from now on
>> > (maybe provide a symlink for compatibility) and drop kdesudo.
>> >
>> > Thoughts? (Am I missing something?)
>> >
>> > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/08/msg00
>> 006.html
>>
>> +1
>> There's plenty of alternatives nowadays so kdesudo isn't required.
>>
>> Aleix
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