I have a fresh install of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma 6.3.5.
Every time I open an app which needs root privileges (such as myrlyn) I’m greeted by the KDE su window to enter my password.
Even if I tick “Remember my password”, this does not have any effects, and the next time I’m asked for my password again.
Any idea on how to ensure the “Remember my password” setting in KDE su is honoured?
There are ways to accomplish this differently but they are not that easy as kicking a checkbox. Security wise, it would be to do it per application, i.e. for myrlyn specifically.
As side remark, I do not (longer?) see a “Remember my password” when executing pkexec echo hello
So, if I understand correctly, there isn’t an easy fix for this, and this is actually a bug that should be fixed upstream by KDE (by fixing KDE su) and/or by openSUSE (by replacing KDE su with polkit-kde).
Or is there a way I can make the switch globally for all applications myself?
It has always been this way the tickbox allows a short window of time to use the program again without reentering. You must always enter root password to gain root access. If other wise we would just rename OS Windows
Chances are, this is related to the current bug in KDE Wallet. It has been fixed, but with the infrastructure issues, it’s going to take a day or two to hit the repositories.
I wouldn’t normally think so either, but the kwallet bug has been screwing up a bunch of stuff that kwallet has nothing to do with it, like the xdg-desktop-portal issues, by creating a race condition.
Fvogt and I did a debugging session yesterday, and fixing kwallet fixed a whole bunch of other regressions that appeared with Plasma 6.3.5
Note: This is just a suspicion, to be clear. I don’t actually ever use kdesu for anything, so I haven’t a clue if it’s actually tied into this or not.