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probelatic

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Registered: 2020-02-29

Posts: 2

Unable to open root , delete file in dolphin kde

Just done installing arch and i found that i cant enter in my root directory in dolphin. It says "Cannot enter folder /root". Ok i understand that i need admin root but atleast ask me to enter pass like gnome do .
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syaoran

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From: Vietnam

Registered: 2020-02-12

Posts: 5

Re: Unable to open root , delete file in dolphin kde

I don't think you can run dolphin as root, even you run "sudo dolphin" command. It just can't

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,724

Re: Unable to open root , delete file in dolphin kde

His concern is that if he uses dolphin as regular user, he's not able to access privilegued paths.

Idk whether dolphin is supposed to have this feature, but you'd at least require some polkit agent running and a sane session dbus for this to work.

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,366

Re: Unable to open root , delete file in dolphin kde

Afaik there's some work on it, but it isn't in a released version yet. See: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6561

NoSavvy

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From: Dorchester, Dorset, UK

Registered: 2013-01-23

Posts: 127

Re: Unable to open root , delete file in dolphin kde

Well I use Krusader (run as root) for any root work and dolphin for normal user activities.