On Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2016 07:02:25 CEST Anton Aylward wrote:
Have you checked boundary value conditions?
Running applications as root, just because they can, is bad. Not only is the password prompt inconvenient, it's also bad security.
I can imagine a shutdown that requires features and functions to be killed or other operations tat can only be carried out as root, which you are not running on your system.
KShutdown does not require running as root to perform its functions.
I'm not sure that some kind of password-less su to root for shutdown is a good thing under any conditions. It leads to bad habits.
Plasma itself does not ask for a password to shutdown, nor does any other modern desktop.
Imagine you're one a multi-user machine. Do you really want any user to be able to shut it down?
I want the admin to configure user's rights accordingly. AFAIK KShutdown just makes dbus calls. It's security by obscurity to disallow only a single front-end.
This is not DOS, this is not Windows
No, this is openSUSE and openSUSE does override upstream's defaults here for no apparent reason. If Nemysis would explain their reasons, I could re-evaluate my stance. Again: - No explanation in the changelog, just sneaked into a patch that also tweaks "Categories=" to openSUSE's needs or – as the patch is described in the spec file: "Fix Categories and uncomment some entries". - No explanation in the original Submit Request; just a "No, declined" to my Submit Request. In the meantime, the package in my home repo works just fine and I'd be happy to contribute it: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:KAMiKAZOW/kshutdown It also reverts a few other weird changes (like capital D in the name despite what the official website http://kshutdown.sf.net/ says). Markus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org