On Sat 06 Jun 2020 at 18:10:10 (-0700), Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Default User <hunguponcont...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > As an experiment, I just installed Debian 10.4 Stable on a spare drive, and > > installed kde on it. > > > > I have not tried kde in many years, so am not really familiar with it. > > Perhaps I am overlooking something obvious, but I can not seem to run > > Dolphin or Konqueror as root. > > > > Searching online, I was astounded to see many references to this problem, > > saying that this is not a bug, but a feature - that kde developers are > > deliberately working to prevent users from using some programs, including > > Dolphin as root, as a "security measure".
> I have no idea what the unfixable security vulnerabilities are. Perhaps the attack claimed here will answer that: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2017/02/editing-files-as-root/ > You might be overestimating the number of people who need to do file > management as root with a graphical tool. Yes, I've certainly never done that. Even using mc requires some care in selecting its configuration options. Cheers, David.