On 05.09.2013 02:52, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 09/04/2013 05:44 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> I don't think sudo works from a menu, you need gksudo or ksudo for that.
> That said, sudo is a hammer compared to polkit. For example, polkit can
> restrict allowed actions to a user present at the physical terminal (as
> the OP wanted), I don't think sudo can do that.
Fedora comes with beesu and things such as yumex use it. Of course, you
could always just turn on the suid bit on the executable, but I'd leave
it as a last resort, especially as you'd have to do it again any time
the file gets updated.
You drive Fedora on old fashioned way.
Welcome to the present.
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/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-dk.yumex.backend.pkexec.run.rules
$ rpm -ql yumex | grep policy
poma