Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (310 mails)

[AnonymousCoward <quantum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Running Suse8 with all current updates.  It has always been my practice to
 run as a user, and to invoke Konq & Konsole in superuser mode when I need
 them thus.

But with Suse8 I can no longer (as a user) launch X-based programs su from
these windows.  Logged in as root I can, but not when as a user and launching
from these programs as superuser.  For instance in Konq I cannot
right-click|OpenWith|AdvancedEditor a file:

 "KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite'".

I can read it in the embedded viewer, but it will not launch.

In konsole:

hydra@hydra:/opt/kde3/bin$ sux -c ./konqueror root
Password:
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
/tmp/mcop-hydra is not owned by user
zone still contained 3 blocks
hydra@hydra:/opt/kde3/bin$

{Helpful, isn't it?  mcop-hydra IS owned by hydra:users}
And in konsolesu  # konqueror  I get:

hydra:/opt/kde3/bin # ./konqueror
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
/tmp/mcop-hydra is not owned by user
zone still contained 3 blocks
hydra:/opt/kde3/bin #

Maybe this is a security issue.  Maybe the X server is intentionally disabled
from accepting root commands from a user.  (unlikely tho) Or maybe it's one
missing setup step.  I had a number of files with invalid user:group
(65536:65536) but I think I fixed them all.

Is anyone else seeing this?  Anyone know the answer?
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