Re: questions about pkexec

2009-12-15 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 12:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: Sudo does, in a rudimentary way. Anything in the env_check list is removed if the value contains a % or a / character. The default list treated this way is: TERM LINGUAS LC_* LANGUAGE LANG COLORTERM Additionally,

Re: questions about pkexec

2009-12-07 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:53:46AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 01:32 +0300, Vladislav Zavjalov wrote: Is there a reason why pkexec is a suid root helper now, not a client-mechanism pair (as proposed for such purposes in the polkit manpage)? Simply because there is

questions about pkexec

2009-11-27 Thread Vladislav Zavjalov
Hi! I have a couple of questions about pkexec in the polkit1. Is there a reason why pkexec is a suid root helper now, not a client-mechanism pair (as proposed for such purposes in the polkit manpage)? Do you plan to allow pkexec to work with X11 programs, obtaining trusted X11 environment from