Google Summer of Code 2019 with KDE

First month progress Hello people!!  I am here presenting you with my monthly GSoC project report. I will be providing the links to my work at the end of the section. A bit of background:  Its been a great first month of Google Summer of Code for me. I was so excited that I had started writing code a week before the actual coding period started. First month as I had expected, had been quite hectic and to add onto it, my semester end examinations are also running at the moment. So I had to manage my time efficiently which I believed have done great so far. Coming to the progress made during this period, I have done the following: 1.1 Implement PolkitQt1 Authorisation back-end: Here I had aimed to implement the same Polkit back-end as the one implemented by KAuth currently. I had to replicate the same behaviour and just remove the mediator ie. KAuth from in between. 1.2 Scrap Public Key Cryptography code based on QCA as QDbus is secure enough: QDbus already provides enough

What my project is all about? Porting Authentication to Polit-qt-1 KDE Partition Manager  runs all the authentication or authorization protocols over KAuth (KDE Authentication), which is a tier 2 library from KDE Frameworks. In the current implementation of KDE Partition Manager, all the privileged tasks such as executing some external program like btrfs, sfdisk etc. Or copying a block of data from one partition to the other, which requires escalated permissions to execute are executed by a helper non GUI application. So, instead of running whole GUI application (KDE Partition Manager) as root or superuser, a helper non GUI application is spawned which runs as root and executes privileged tasks. This helper program communicates with KDE Partition Manager over simple DBus protocol. The current implementation may seem a good idea, but is not, the reason being that KAuth is an extra layer added over Polkit-qt which causes extra overhead. So, the proposal for this project is to port a

About me...huh, Who am I? I am  Shubham , a 3rd year undergraduate student, pursuing my B.E(Bachelor of Engineering) at BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore, India. I am an amateur open source enthusiast and developer, mostly working with C++ with Qt framework to build some stand alone applications. I also have decent knowlege of C, Java, Python, bash scripting, git and I love developing under the linux environment. I also practice competitve programming at various online judges. Apart from coding, in my spare time I go for Cricket or Volleyball to keep myself refreshed.