On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 1:05 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 02:21:19PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > My best recollection is that pkexec was kinda a kludge to allow us to > > get rid of consolehelper: some apps weren't getting rewritten to the > > Right Way of doing things under policykit, they still just wanted to > > have the entire app run as root, and pkexec was a way to make that > > happen. > > That sounds right to me too. I mean not "right", but what happened. > > I'd also love to get rid of the entire javascript configuration system. > That's... more CVEs waiting to happen. >
Some years ago, Ikey Doherty made a patchset to allow polkit to use regular config files instead of JavaScript[1]. He did it in Solus[2], but the discussion upstream petered out and nothing happened. Maybe we could talk to Ikey about reviving it and integrating it upstream finally? [1]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2017-October/000547.html [2]: https://dev.getsol.us/T4824 -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
