openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for kdesu ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2016:2865-1 Rating: moderate References: #1009510 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: This update for kdesu fixes the following issues: - Add unset-xdg-runtime-dir.diff to unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in processes run with kdesu. This fixes the problem which made most kde application (like dolphin or kate) not usable when run as another user with kdesu. kdesu worked to run those applications as root, but then, sockets were created in / . - Fix the creation of those files which will be created on /tmp/runtime-<username>/ (boo#1009510). Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1337=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64): kdesu-debugsource-5.26.0-3.1 kdesu-devel-5.26.0-3.1 libKF5Su5-5.26.0-3.1 libKF5Su5-debuginfo-5.26.0-3.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (noarch): libKF5Su5-lang-5.26.0-3.1 - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64): kdesu-devel-32bit-5.26.0-3.1 libKF5Su5-32bit-5.26.0-3.1 libKF5Su5-debuginfo-32bit-5.26.0-3.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009510