Source: kio-admin Section: kde Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers Uploaders: Aurélien COUDERC , Rules-Requires-Root: no Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-kf6, cmake (>= 3.22~), extra-cmake-modules (>= 5.98.0~), gettext, libkf5i18n-dev (>= 5.98.0~), libkf5kio-dev (>= 5.98.0~), libkf6i18n-dev (>= 5.98.0~), libkf6kio-dev (>= 5.98.0~), libpolkit-qt5-1-dev, libpolkit-qt6-1-dev, qt6-base-dev (>= 5.15.0~), qtbase5-dev (>= 5.15.0~), Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Homepage: https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-admin Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/kio-admin Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/kio-admin.git Package: kio-admin Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Description: manage files as administrator using the admin:// KIO protocol kio-admin implements the admin:// protocol which gives administrative access to the entire system. This is achieved by talking, over D-Bus, with a root-level helper binary that in turn uses existing KIO infrastructure to run file:// operations in root-scope. . Simply put: admin:// is exactly like file:// but redirected over D-Bus to gain administrative privileges.