On 05/06/2017 09:54 AM, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 05/05/2017 à 15:24, Lars Noodén a écrit :
[snip]
>> I haven't seen this before.  What should I change to have XFCE require a
>> password each time I launch the Root Terminal icon.
> 
>     This message is typical of Policykit's self propaganda. sudo's
> messages are different.
> 
>     Policykit is a server-based system intended to grant you permissions
> without ressorting to the traditional unix mechanisms - same idea as
> ssh-agent, but more generic and complicated.
> 
>     Policykit's configuration is yet another pseudo-language you have to
> learn unless you can get rid of it, which is hard to do completely :-(
> 
>     Didier

Ok.  Thanks.  I'll dig in that direction.  Based on this and many other
incidents, policykit seems to be a big, gaping security hole.  I expect
that it is also quite difficult to extricate from jessie.

/Lars

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