- Must be installed to /usr! Polkit and DBus hardcode /usr as source for policies and system services
- KIO 5.98 (master at the time of writing)
kio-admin implements a new protocol admin:///
which gives administrative access to the entire system. This is achieved
by talking, over dbus, with a root-level helper binary that in turn uses existing KIO infrastructure to run file://
operations in root-scope. Or simply put: admin://
is exactly like file://
but redirected over dbus to gain
administrative privileges.
dolphin admin:///