Re: Re: Re: pkexec vs kdesu

2014-12-11 Thread Harald Sitter
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:06:59 Harald Sitter wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> > On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:14:02 Harald Sitter wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Edmundson >> >>

Re: pkexec vs kdesu

2014-12-11 Thread Harald Sitter
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Edmundson wrote: > That said, polkit is totally the way forward and anything using kdesu should > be ported. I think the biggest concern is our custom desktop entry allowing *any* third party developer to leverage the power of kdesu and easily elevate their

Re: Re: Re: pkexec vs kdesu

2014-12-11 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:06:59 Harald Sitter wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:14:02 Harald Sitter wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Edmundson > >> > >> wrote: > >> > You will probably get massively differen

Re: Re: pkexec vs kdesu

2014-12-11 Thread Harald Sitter
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:14:02 Harald Sitter wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Edmundson >> >> wrote: >> > You will probably get massively different behaviour regarding your env. >> > >> > pkexec won't copy anything, su

Re: Re: pkexec vs kdesu

2014-11-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 23 November 2014 17:14:02 Harald Sitter wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Edmundson > > wrote: > > You will probably get massively different behaviour regarding your env. > > > > pkexec won't copy anything, sudo will. > > Without $DISPLAY graphical apps are out. > > Sure

Re: pkexec vs kdesu

2014-11-23 Thread Harald Sitter
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Edmundson wrote: > You will probably get massively different behaviour regarding your env. > > pkexec won't copy anything, sudo will. > Without $DISPLAY graphical apps are out. Surely not an unsolvable problem. Clearly wayland fixes this ;) > That said, pol

Re: pkexec vs kdesu

2014-11-23 Thread David Edmundson
You will probably get massively different behaviour regarding your env. pkexec won't copy anything, sudo will. Without $DISPLAY graphical apps are out. That said, polkit is totally the way forward and anything using kdesu should be ported. What does still use it? David __

pkexec vs kdesu

2014-11-23 Thread Harald Sitter
hola! how about we replace all of our kdesu usage with pkexec. pkexec has a lovely nice dialog, is backed by polkit, very secure, very nice, totally cool. also, absolutely sufficient. thoughts? HS ___ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-de