https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476988
--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> --- (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #2) > > However the openSUSE packagers have patched out PolKit support in Kate, > > causing you to need to turn to this workaround. > > Well, *had* to... Please file a bug report downstream and compain to the > security team. I've talked to them in the past about this, and while I understand their perspective regarding potential security vulnerabilities in Polkit and Kate's implementation of it, what I don't understand is removing the feature in favor of re-adding the ability to open a GUI app as root that had been deliberately disabled before. That just re-opens a bigger vulnerability. It feels a bit like saying, "the door to your house is insecure, so we welded the door shut and removed a window so you can enter that way instead". Anyway, this is a conversation for elsewhere. :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
