Dropping kdesudo

[Pali Rohár]

On Thursday 07 September 2017 12:35:19 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:19 AM, 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?
> 
> Yes, no graphical software should be ever run as root. It's a major
> security problem as it exposes the problems with X11 to root
> privileges.
> If you find an application that requires it, feel free to report it as a bug.

Any partition manager application (including the most powerful gnome's
gparted or kde's partitionmanager) needs root for obvious reasons as
access to hardware would always needs root.

And it is not a bug, but correct behavior as normal user does not have
access to hardware and raw disks.

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Pali Rohár
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