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The user gets to decide whether she wants to run kate as root.
Please developers, do not presume that a Slackware user is dumb.
diff -uar kate-19.04.1.orig/kate/main.cpp kate-19.04.1/kate/main.cpp
--- kate-19.04.1.orig/kate/main.cpp 2019-05-02 12:44:53.000000000 +0200
+++ kate-19.04.1/kate/main.cpp 2019-05-08 21:26:07.196338144 +0200
@@ -59,14 +59,12 @@
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
#ifndef Q_OS_WIN
- // Prohibit using sudo or kdesu (but allow using the root user directly)
+ // Warn using sudo or kdesu (but allow using the root user directly)
if (getuid() == 0) {
if (!qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty("SUDO_USER")) {
- std::cout << "Executing Kate with sudo is not possible due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
- return EXIT_FAILURE;
+ std::cout << "Executing Kate with sudo is UNSAFE due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
} else if (!qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty("KDESU_USER")) {
- std::cout << "Executing Kate with kdesu is not possible due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
- return EXIT_FAILURE;
+ std::cout << "Executing Kate with kdesu is UNSAFE due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
}
}
#endif
diff -uar kate-19.04.1.orig/kwrite/main.cpp kate-19.04.1/kwrite/main.cpp
--- kate-19.04.1.orig/kwrite/main.cpp 2019-05-02 12:44:53.000000000 +0200
+++ kate-19.04.1/kwrite/main.cpp 2019-05-08 21:27:52.034134472 +0200
@@ -51,14 +51,12 @@
extern "C" Q_DECL_EXPORT int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
#ifndef Q_OS_WIN
- // Prohibit using sudo or kdesu (but allow using the root user directly)
+ // Warn using sudo or kdesu (but allow using the root user directly)
if (getuid() == 0) {
if (!qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty("SUDO_USER")) {
- std::cout << "Executing KWrite with sudo is not possible due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
- return EXIT_FAILURE;
+ std::cout << "Executing KWrite with sudo is UNSAFE due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
} else if (!qEnvironmentVariableIsEmpty("KDESU_USER")) {
- std::cout << "Executing KWrite with kdesu is not possible due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
- return EXIT_FAILURE;
+ std::cout << "Executing KWrite with kdesu is UNSAFE due to unfixable security vulnerabilities." << std::endl;
}
}
#endif
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