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Autor: tom
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Para: dng
Tópicos Antigos: Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed? bring back gksudo
Assunto: Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed? dropin replacement
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:35:26 -0800
tom <tom@???> wrote:

> Deprecated gksudo? Well thats pretty dumb. Any particular reason
> Devuan doesn't just fish around for the old gksudo git repo and
> continue that instead of dealing with this policykit mess of
> complexity? You can allow users in your a group for example
> 'installers' to run synaptic by editing sudo's config like so:
>
> %installers ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/synaptic
>
> This Policykit stuff just seems like completely unneeded and unstable
> cruft like systemd or pulseaudio.
>
> Thank you for clarifying though. I'm going to see about getting it
> working on Gentoo since I have more experience with ebuilds than I do
> with Debian packaging currently.
>
>
>


Just found a drop-in replacement for gksudo. It's called lxqt-sudo.
https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-sudo
It works pretty well.

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