Local users get to play root?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Nov 19 10:01:49 UTC 2009


David Zeuthen wrote:
> Jeez, Rahul. This has nothing to do with polkit per se, only PackageKit
> and how it decides to use polkit.

Yet the root of the problem seems to be that in PolicyKit 1, you dropped
support for the auth_admin_keep_always feature which was used so far and
which had exactly the semantics we want.

See:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/277#comment:4
and this is confirmed by yourself here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2009-September/000213.html

        Kevin Kofler




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