The question I always forget to ask...

[bicol_willem]

Why do we have in file manager of any user the option "delete as root"??

I have NEVER found a machine where this option actually works.

It always comes down to "Sorry-KDE su"    Cannot execute command rm -f-r blablablabla.

 

[Just17]

.... because it works for the most of us I guess .....

[bicol_willem]

.... because it works for the most of us I guess .....

To see is to believe... 

[agmg]

This right-click option has never worked for me either... 

[Linuzoid]

Doesn't work for me either

[Crow]

Never had a problem with that option and is very useful.

[sling-shot]

Same error here too. Does not work for user files/directories or root files/directories in my KDE installation.

[Just17]

bicol_willem
                     Apologies ......  indeed it fails to work now ......  and looking at the command in use it appears to be a syntax error.

Try from a user console

kdesu  'rm -f -r' /<file>

and the failure as you reported occurs .....  but try the following

kdesu  rm -f -r /<file>

and it performs as it always has for me.

[bicol_willem]

How did Crow escaped the syntax error? 

I have tried this through the time on minimum 20 installs (KDE), PC and laptop alike and never saw it working.

[sling-shot]

bicol_willem
                     Apologies ......  indeed it fails to work now ......  and looking at the command in use it appears to be a syntax error.

Where did you see? I have looked under /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ but there is no reference to 'Delete as root'.....

[bicol_willem]

bicol_willem
                     Apologies ......  indeed it fails to work now ......  and looking at the command in use it appears to be a syntax error.

Where did you see? I have looked under /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ but there is no reference to 'Delete as root'.....

The command shows actually during the action right click - delete as root - when root password is asked

[sling-shot]

Uh. Oh. Lack of attention. Sorry.

Now on to finding where the yellow is this line in our configuration files.

There must be a grep command to do this somewhere....

[Just17]

I don't know what is generating that 'delete as root' entry.

It becomes available when DoAsRoot is installed .....  which gives a service menu      open_as_root.desktop   with just the one entry 'open_as_root'.

But I get not 'Open As Root' as one might expect, but  'Edit As Root' and 'Delete As Root'  as the service menu entries.

In other words ......  I have no idea  

Using the ServiceMenuEditor I have read only access to the 'Delete As Root' service menu which has the following command

kdesu "rm -f -r" %U

There are also an 'Open As Root' and  'Edit As Root'  service menu entries in the editor.

EDIT
            sram.d.desktop   is the service menu concerned ?

[sling-shot]

Gotcha!

/usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/sram_d.desktop

Open it using "Edit as root" (it works) and then remove those quote marks from the last line of that file. Save.
It should look like below:

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Exec=kdesu rm -f -r %U

Try "Delete as root". It should work now.

If everyone finds this correct, then we should report it to Neal perhaps? or Archie?

[Just17]

Gotcha!

/usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/sram_d.desktop

Open it using "Edit as root" (it works) and then remove those quote marks from the last line of that file. Save.

Try "Delete as root". It should work now.

If everyone finds this correct, then we should report it to Neal perhaps? or Archie?

Yep .......  removing the quotation marks around the command allows it to complete, and the Edit As Root works still even though that still has quotation marks around it.

.....  but I wonder if something else is involved here .....

EDIT:
              Why do I not see (in the Service Menu List)
Open As Root ?

Answer:   It does appear .....  but ONLY for directories!