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Autor: aitor
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Para: Didier Kryn, dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed? dropin replacement
Hi Didier,

En 24 de febrero de 2020 10:01:33 Didier Kryn <kryn@???> escribió:

> Le 24/02/2020 à 01:16, Aitor a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Tito,
>>
>> On 23/2/20 17:02, Tito via Dng wrote:
>>> Why use 2 binaries rather than one, more programs, more code, more
>>> communication in between them equals to more attack surface.
>>> I would stay with just one suid binary, more so if you want to go the
>>> su-only route.
>> I'll answer to this question in more detail: the requeriment of suid
>> privilegies implies an additional (non GUI) binary due to the fact
>> that the usage of any GTK suid binary is impossible.
>> Read here:
>>
>> http://soc.if.usp.br/manual/libgtk2.0-doc/faq/x392.html
>     Does it mean that synaptic works that way with droping priviledges
> in the GUI?

>
>     Didier


Synaptic is run as root via sudo/su. There are no suid privilegies.

Cheers,

Aitor.




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