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Author: Tito
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed? dropin replacement


On 2/21/20 10:56 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:57:42 -0500
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:23:47 -0800
>> tom <tom@???> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Just found a drop-in replacement for gksudo. It's called lxqt-sudo.
>>> https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-sudo
>>> It works pretty well.
>>
>> Will it work even if I'm not using lxqt? Does it stand alone?
>
>
> Not "alone", but quite fine for a GUI - and compared to gksu in a very
> different league:
>
> $ apt show lxqt-sudo | grep Depends    # beowulf
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), liblxqt0 (>= 0.14.1~), libqt5core5a (>=
> 5.11.0~rc1), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2),
> libstdc++6 (>= 6)

>
> $ apt show gksu | grep Depends        # jessie
> Depends: gconf-service, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4),
> libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11), libfreetype6 (>=
> 2.2.1), libgconf-2-4 (>= 3.2.5), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0),
> libgksu2-0 (>= 2.0.8), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libgnome-keyring0 (>=
> 2.20.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0),
> libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0),
> libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.2), sudo Conflicts: gnome-sudo (<=
> 0.3-1.1)

>
>
> libre Grüße,
> Florian


Hi,

I wonder if there is a way to make it intercept the polkit
dbus calls and eventually ask for a password?
Does somthing like: Replaces polkit exist in the
debian packaging voodoo?

Ciao,
Tito