Re: CVE-2021-4034: why is pkexec still a thing?

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On Wednesday, January 26, 2022 5:21:19 PM EST Adam Williamson wrote:
> But that was then, and this is now. Does anything in Workstation use
> pkexec? Does anything in KDE use it?

I searched my journal for its tell-tail: 'gain ONE-SHOT authorization'
and came up with these:

Aug 21 11:51:15 polkitd[869]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:garry to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.save for system-bus-name::1.1873 [/usr/bin/systemsettings5] (owned by unix-user:garry)
Nov 02 22:44:34 polkitd[2818]: Operator of unix-session:2 successfully authenticated as unix-user:garry to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.save for system-bus-name::1.75 [/usr/bin/systemsettings5] (owned by unix-user:garry)
Nov 06 22:34:40 polkitd[929]: Operator of unix-session:7 successfully authenticated as unix-user:garry to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.installtheme for system-bus-name::1.285 [/usr/bin/sddmthemeinstaller -i /tmp/AbstractSDDM_jyt4h8.tar.gz] (owned by unix-user:garry)
Nov 28 09:15:46 polkitd[908]: Operator of unix-session:3 successfully authenticated as unix-user:garry to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.save for system-bus-name::1.78 [/usr/bin/systemsettings5] (owned by unix-user:garry)

-- 
Garry T. Williams


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