Local users get to play root?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 19 10:07:45 UTC 2009


On 11/19/2009 03:38 PM, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> Even Microsoft Windows asks for elevated privileges for this sort of
>> thing!
> 
> What I'd like to have is a comprehensive set of options that need to be 
> locked down in PolicyKit to get a secure system. It looks like there are 
> tons of potentially nasty options enabled by default, with little 
> information over what they do.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Security.html

Man page:

pklocalauthority(8) polkit(8) polkitd(8) pkaction(1), pkcheck(1), pkexec(1)

Rahul




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