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Author: Lars Noodén
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] XFCE : Granted permissions without asking for password
On 05/06/2017 09:54 AM, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 05/05/2017 à 15:24, Lars Noodén a écrit :

[snip]
>> I haven't seen this before. What should I change to have XFCE require a
>> password each time I launch the Root Terminal icon.
>
>     This message is typical of Policykit's self propaganda. sudo's
> messages are different.

>
>     Policykit is a server-based system intended to grant you permissions
> without ressorting to the traditional unix mechanisms - same idea as
> ssh-agent, but more generic and complicated.

>
>     Policykit's configuration is yet another pseudo-language you have to
> learn unless you can get rid of it, which is hard to do completely :-(

>
>     Didier


Ok. Thanks. I'll dig in that direction. Based on this and many other
incidents, policykit seems to be a big, gaping security hole. I expect
that it is also quite difficult to extricate from jessie.

/Lars