https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374272
--- Comment #11 from Andrius Štikonas <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #10) > (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #9) > > For version 3.1 I think I'll also pass $HOME environmental variable to keep > > user home dir and theming. > > You really must not. If you set $HOME you will have configuration files in > the user's home owned by root, re-owned to root, have incorrect (rooty) > paths written to, and similar nonesense happening. This is also one of the > reasons why sudo, for example, takes great care to mangle the environment > such that the "default" variables are pointing to root rather than the > sudoing user. > > Setting HOME to the user's home while elevating to root is a big no-no. > > For theming purposes what you could try to do is make plasmaintegration (the > themeplugin) read from SUDO_USER's home and in your helper export SUDO_USER. > This needs checking back with the plasma developers, but generally speaking > if you go through SUDO_USER and make double sure that the themeplugin is > only able to read but not write configs this ultimately should give better > themeing. > > NB: this still would not be perfect as the elevated application still > wouldn't be able to load additional themes or plugins or icons from user > specified XDG_* environment paths (also, doing so would, in fact. be an > enormous security hazard). Thanks, I'll try to implement these suggestions when I have time... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
