So ive got a Fedora 42 (Minimal) on a M1-Machine running, using Sway. When i use Kate or Partition-Manager and the need for Root-Privileges arises there will be no promt to ask me for my passwd. Instead i get en error-message, saying that its got no write-access (Kate) or nothing happens at all (partmngr). I installed via dnf, and added kauth manually via dnf as well. Wich dep am i missing to get things working as expected?
dolphin settings > configure > context menu … search for administrative actions
and enable that…. may need to restart dolphin.
also may need to install kio-admin if its not already installed.
So you are suggesting that the elevation of privileges for the apps Kate and Partition-manager is dependent on dolphin, do i get you right?
I tried that in first installing Dolphin and checking that kio-admin is on board es well. Actually what happens is that when i open the context-menu and klick on open as administrator nothing happens.
Seems to me that all three apps rely on the same backend wich is not properly represented on my system. But wich would that be and how would it be made right…
as my regular user, when i try to save edits to a file owned by root kate (or partition manager) will prompt me for the password.
i can also a file owned by root as administrator and it will prompt me for the password in advance, and after that subsequent saves are as if i owned them (not my preference), but some files cannot even be read by my regular user, and that’s when this comes in handy.
my understanding was that this ability is managed by kio-admin but there is also pol-kit activity going on which sends the login prompt, so it could be either one of those or both that are not connecting on your system in the same as mine.
kubuntu might be slightly more permissive when it comes to regular users doing root level stuff, when compared to fedora.