Dolphin Root

[hallergard]

Had a very smooth upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10. Only problem is that Dolphin Root won't run. In terminal I get the message: "Executing Dolphin as root not possible". What to do? I do need a root file manager and lost my preferred Konqueror with the previous upgrade.

[Rog131]

Earlier: Question - How do I handle the pending loss of root access to Dolphin and Kate? - https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...lphin-and-Kate

Short with the Dolphin:

- You could use other file managers.
- You could rebuild the Dolphin without the root check.

Future - KDE Forums: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=224&t=141836
--> CHINMOY'S BLOG: http://blog.chinmoyrp.com -> Polkit Support in KIO - Final Status: http://blog.chinmoyrp.com/gsoc%20kde...-final-status/

[hallergard]

Thanks for the extensive info! Rebuilding sounds very complicated to an amateur. Is it available for downloading?

[Rog131]

Thanks for the extensive info! Rebuilding sounds very complicated to an amateur. Is it available for downloading?

There is some learning curve but when you have made it few times...

Taming the beast
- Thread: Auto preview audio and video files in the Dolphin and Konqueror: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...-and-Konqueror
- Thread: Dolphin - allow terminal to be placed to the left/right/top/bottom: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ght-top-bottom
- Dolphin: play audio/videofiles on mouseover: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=225&t=136907
- Play All Media Button for Dolphin: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=140139



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I wouldn't recommend but the KDE Reddit has: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comment..._not_possible/
--> https://iwf1.com/linux-users-bypass-...ot-privileges/

[hallergard]

Too advanced for me. Think I wiill try downgrading Dolphin

[vinnywright]

Too advanced for me. Think I wiill try downgrading Dolphin

Krusader will still work as root !!

VINNY

[hallergard]

Downgraded Dolphin to ver 15.12.3 and it seems to work OK as Root. Also installed Krusader and Nautilus and can run them as Root.

However, neither of the three can open a txt-file with the context menu (Kate, Kwrite - but LibreOffice Writer works). With Dolphin the error message is "KDEInit could not launch /usr/bin/kate", with Krusader and Nautilus no message. Does not seem to be a permissions problem as the txt-files can be opened from the apps (Kate, Kwrite).

[hallergard]

Found that they all three could open txt-files from the context menu if I did not use them as Root. Had used 'sudo krusader' so thought it should perhaps be 'kdesudo krusader' - but still the same problem.

[dequire]

You can use Dolphin as root - if you perform an action requiring root, Dolphin will prompt for your root password. No need to launch as root. Tested today.

[hallergard]

Seems good, thanks dequire. How to test it? (appologise for the elementary question)

[dequire]

Seems good, thanks dequire. How to test it? (appologise for the elementary question)

No problem! Just make a text file in your home directory (inside Dolphin) and press [F3] to go to Split Screeen mode. Then, using Dolphin, move it to a directory using drag-and-drop somewhere in root directory [/] - [/temp] would be a good candidate. When you do so you will be prompted for your password. Then the move will be complete. Hope this helps.

[vinnywright]

No problem! Just make a text file in your home directory (inside Dolphin) and press [F3] to go to Split Screeen mode. Then, using Dolphin, move it to a directory using drag-and-drop somewhere in root directory [/] - [/temp] would be a good candidate. When you do so you will be prompted for your password. Then the move will be complete. Hope this helps.

O dose this work for you ?

what ver of dolphin and on what system ?

I can not do that ,,,but Kate will edit root files with a password prompt .

Dolphin however will not create or copy to or remove from a root directory the user dose not have read/write permissions for !!

/tmp is read/write for everyone

VINNY

[hallergard]

Get red message: "Access denied. Could not write to."
with both Dolphin 15.12.3 and 17.04.3

[oshunluvr]

No problem! Just make a text file in your home directory (inside Dolphin) and press [F3] to go to Split Screeen mode. Then, using Dolphin, move it to a directory using drag-and-drop somewhere in root directory [/] - [/temp] would be a good candidate. When you do so you will be prompted for your password. Then the move will be complete. Hope this helps.

Didn't work that way here. Too bad, sounds like a good solution...

[dequire]

Didn't work that way here. Too bad, sounds like a good solution...

So weird. I could have sworn it worked before. But, alas, it does not atm. It's very frustrating when philosophical reasoning keeps functionality suppressed which in turn hurts users. Sadly, Linux has not hit the critical mass yet for devs to worry about things like moving files on one's PC using a GUI. Although you'd have thought by 2017...