Comment 11 for bug 144722

I am also having trouble with kdesu after upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10RC.

I have a couple of partitions that are not listed in /etc/fstab.
In Kubuntu 7.04 I could mount+open them by opening a konqueror as
root, going to media:/ and opening the drive icon.
Doing the same after upgrade to 7.10RC gives me an error:
   hal-storage-fixed-mount refused for uid 1001

What I did:
  Alt+F2 kdesu konqueror
kdesudo popped up and received my passwd.
konqueror started.
When I klicked the home button, I was in MY homedir, not in /root.
However, I could access all files as if I were root!
I went to media:/, klicked on an unmounted drive icon and got
the error.

ps aux shows:
jo 14523 0.0 2.7 27200 14076 ? S 18:23 0:00 kdesu konqueror
root 14526 0.6 5.5 44756 28736 ? S 18:23 0:05 konqueror

Opening a Konsole from root-konqueror (F9, KDE-services>programs>system>Konsole)
starts with MY uid, NOT root, same with 'whoami'

As kdesu seems now to be a link to kdesudo, I tried
   Alt+F2 kdesu.distrib konqueror
Kde-su (not kdesudo!!!) pops up and asks for the passwd.
And everything is fine as in 7.04 (home is /root, could mount
drives etc.)

All the same applies to dolphin i.s.o. konqueror.

I hope it's a bug, not a feature?
... and yes, Kubuntu 7.10RC rocks!