Osbourne Tux? Are you worried about the security of your sh ... Don't be. Here be a tutorial explaining how to run the Dolphin file manager in the Plasma desktop environment with root or sudo permissions using a non-intrusive loading of the necessary root-capable libkdeinit5_dolphin.so shared library with LD_PRELOAD.

About a year ago, this restriction was implemented in Plasma because "root was dangerous" [sic] and for a while, you could not launch Dolphin as root or with sudo. This would-be security measure made my rage enzymes spike through the roof. Since, the KDE team has wisely gone back on this change, and starting with KDE Application 18.08 bundle, you can do this again once more. Job well done. Kudos. But what if you're running an older version of Dolphin? This tutorial offers a non-intrusive, stopgap measure for that.