chinmoyr added a comment.
In https://phabricator.kde.org/D10141#197039, @fvogt wrote: > There is one issue I have with this. While this is close to the `sudo`-mode of temporary authorization grants, it doesn't work that way as the whole session has full access via file.so. How exactly? Is there any way for an application to choose a slave process instead of being assigned one at random? Till now what I have observed is after a successful authentication only the slave process is authorised to perform the action and not the application itself. So if a malicious app wants to perform some kind of privileged file operation then it has to (somehow) pick up a slave that had been already authorized. And even if that were possible the slave will still show a confirmation dialog. > It would be great if this could work with just the application which initially requested the privilege. > With this, the whole session has full root-level access to literally everything on the system. I do understand having authorization persist for the entire session means disaster but when kauth generates the policy file this option only results in "auth_admin_keep". Polkit's manpage says : **auth_admin_keep - Like auth_admin but the authorization is kept for a brief period (e.g. five minutes).** Also when I execute **pkcheck --list-temp** after authenticating a file operation started by dolphin the output I get includes these lines subject: unix-process:9532:1210162 (file.so [kdeinit5] file local:/run/user/1000/klauncherTJ7042.1.slave-socket local:/run/user/1000/kioslavetestAX7208.3.slave-socket) expires: 4 min 47 sec from now (Fri Feb 9 21:43:47 2018) This suggests **auth_admin_keep** results in temporary authorization of one particular process for 5 minutes and not for the entire user session. So can you explain me one more time why you think persistence=session is a bad idea? Do correct me if I got anything (or everything?) above wrong. REPOSITORY R241 KIO REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D10141 To: elvisangelaccio, lbeltrame, dfaure, davidedmundson, fvogt, chinmoyr Cc: #frameworks, michaelh, ngraham
