Requirements

• 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)

Functionality

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:///