Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd
On Saturday 09 December 2017 05:12:16 Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 23:56:44 +0000
>
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 23:06:00 +0000, Joe wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 17:12:18 -0500
> > >
> > > Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I do remember having to give a password, but I don't remember
> > > > how long ago now. And I have too much open right now to test
> > > > drive whether mine does it or not these days.. :)
> > >
> > > As I did the other day. I've tried it now (up-to-date unstable)
> > > and it works for a non-root user.
> >
> > Without policykit-1 installed it doesn't; no rebooting or powering
> > off with /sbin/reboot or /sbin/poweroff for a user. CTRL+ALT+DEL
> > from a terminal reboots. That's the same behaviour as sysvinit.
>
> Yes, I understand that, the point is that the first installation of
> policykit-1, which I did not explicitly request, did not ask me if I
> wanted non-root users to be able to reboot, or indeed about anything
> else it might control. Not that it matters on any of my machines, I'd
> just like to have been told that it was changing, and given the option
> to keep it as it was had I needed to.
Thats another very sore point. Where are the man pages? Its installed on
6, maybe 7 machines here, with zero docs. What the hell? If debian or
any other distro decides to shove this crap down our throats, at least
have the courtesy of making the docs available. I just searched thru the
repo's with synaptic and came up null and empty on polkit-1.
So where are the docs?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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