Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd
On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 11:29:58 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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?
$ dpkg -L policykit-1 | less
will reveal what came with the package, and you'll find the
manpages listed there, about 7 of them.
Cheers,
David.
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