From 63a2a88e6ccff155d13083990f2007ebcc8b52bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Vogt <fabian@ritter-vogt.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 23:51:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Allow starting kwin_wayland as root

Running a Plasma Wayland session as root is not insecure, it is in fact the
opposite. There is no way for other users to somehow influence this session
due to the user separation and the user is more likely to only use this for
administrative actions. This is in contrast to regular user sessions, which
most likely start a mix of unprivileged programs next to privileged windows
like some with authorized kauth helpers or even just sudo in a konsole tab.
---
 src/main_wayland.cpp | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main_wayland.cpp b/src/main_wayland.cpp
index 045f961ce8..84745a89fd 100644
--- a/src/main_wayland.cpp
+++ b/src/main_wayland.cpp
@@ -362,10 +362,6 @@ void dropNiceCapability()
 
 int main(int argc, char * argv[])
 {
-    if (getuid() == 0) {
-        std::cerr << "kwin_wayland does not support running as root." << std::endl;
-        return 1;
-    }
     KWin::disablePtrace();
     KWin::Application::setupMalloc();
     KWin::Application::setupLocalizedString();