2 Apr
2025
2 Apr
'25
4:28 a.m.
On 2025/04/02 09:02 AM, Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote:
I updated my system from 14.1.2 to 14.1.3. I no
longer could launch non TDE tools as root using pkexec. Testing in the
command line indicates some kind of polkit issue.
I tested the same in KDE and had no problems.
I noticed in KDE there is a polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 process running. No such
process in TDE, but I don't
recall anything like that in previous versions of TDE. Kind of implies something in
14.1.3 changed to expect a polkit
agent.
On a whim I created a $TDEHOME/Autostart desktop file to launch the KDE polkit agent. I
then could again launch non TDE
tools as root with pkexec.
Did something related change between 14.1.2 and 14.1.3? Digging further into this
indicates there has for a while been a
polkit-tqt and polkit-agent-tde package. I never had these packages installed and never
had an issue until 14.1.3.
Are these two packages now required in TDE? A simple executive summary would be a help.
Hi Darrell,
polkit-tqt and polkit-agent-tde packages have been there for a number of releases
already.
Unless you have some special config banning root, you basically don't need them if you
are root, since you already have
all the permission you need being root.
Those packages are meant for non-root users and allows them to authorize execution of
actions that need special permission.
There has been no changes between R14.1.2 and R14.1.3 that would affect that, so if you
see a difference, the problem is
likely somewhere else (polkit config of those non TDE tools perhaps?). pkexec is a polkit
related tool, there is nothing
in TDE that would/could block it.
Cheers
Michele