Edit as Root menu entry

[MoonRise]

OK, so an update tonight on my machine. Actually wanted to do some "tweaks" after that was done. Trying to edit some config files with kate as root no go, would not run. OK, used the menu entry Edit as Root. No go. So went to konsole to see if I get any error messages. Get the below? New feature of KDE or is this a "feature" that the MAUI developers introduced? Anyway to "undo" this?

:~$ kdesudo kate
Executing Kate as root is not possible. To edit files as root use:
SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit <file>

[whatthefunk]

There was another thread about this: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?t=71347

Might be helpful

[Rog131]

Short

KDE Applications 17.04 : https://www.kde.org/announcements/fu...n=17.04.0#kate -> https://cgit.kde.org/kate.git/commit...c99f46b0e12a7e :

Disallow executing kate and kwrite as root on Linux ...

but

with the KDE Frameworks 5.34 or later the password is requested if needed. No need to start the kate/kwrite with the root rights: https://phabricator.kde.org/D4847 & https://phabricator.kde.org/D5394

...With this patch kate-part will try to save the document contents with elevated privileges in case the regular save failed. So that KAuth graphical prompt is presented to user...

[MoonRise]

Thanks to you both!!

[vinnywright]

Thanks to you both!!

as you may gave noticed you cant launch dolphin as root ant more as well .

Krusader will however

VINNY

[MoonRise]

I did but now another question. What is the future of the Root Actions service menu? Most of that is non-functional now. Loved being able to do what through the service menu but now have to go to command line to do all of that. Kind of tedious.

[GreyGeek]

I use sudoedit, which adds a service menu to Dolphin titled "sudoedit with kate".

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...156#post399156

[claydoh]

I did but now another question. What is the future of the Root Actions service menu? Most of that is non-functional now. Loved being able to do what through the service menu but now have to go to command line to do all of that. Kind of tedious.

At least for editing files, you don't need to use the command line or a service menu with the latest Frameworks (KDE Neon, or Kubuntu 17.10, or 17.04+ppas maybe). Just open a file, and if it needs admin privileges it will ask for your password when saving. Same for creating new files, when saving to somewhere outside of your $HOME. You can't right-click to create a new file or folder there, however.

[MoonRise]

Thanks!