Authentication dialog doesn't show up

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Hi, I got two Plasma installations: KDE Neon Unstable and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

If I have to modify a file in the “/” partition, in KDE Neon I:
1 - open that file, e.g. with Kate;
2 - do my changes;
3 - click on the “Save” button;
4 - now an authentication dialog shows up, which prompts me to insert my password;
5 - my changes are saved after I insert my password.

If I follow the above steps in openSUSE Tumbleweed, after 3) the authentication dialog doesn’t show up: I got a message box instead which tells me I don’t have (of course) the required privileges, and there there is no way to go further after I dismiss that message.
What’s wrong here?

Thank you.

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The OpenSUSE packagers removed this functionality in Kate in their packaging of the app. You’ll have to ask them about it, use the Flatpak version, re-compile it with the feature working again, use a different distro, or accept its omission.

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Thank you Nate!

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https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/bagrhp/how_to_save_file_as_root_with_kate_with_password/

This happened years ago.

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Don’t want to hijack so I made a separate thread for this, maybe interesting to you, OP.

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Thank you all, but:

  • using the flatpak version of kwrite doesn’t solve;
  • thank you pallaswept but your solution is too much nerdy for me :slight_smile: .

I’d like to add a Dolphin service menu item, but if I follow the steps in ben2talk’s link it doesn’t work as well (that item is sometimes shown, but it does nothing).
It seems now the path to save the .desktop file has changed and it should be /usr/share/kio/servicemenus/, anyway nothing changes by adding that file there…

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