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 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
