Re: I need current network interface documentation

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On 7/3/20 1:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 2020-07-03 13:07, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 7/3/20 12:53 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Oh of interest, Xfce Pol kit has a YUGE security hole that I
reported a while back that has yet to be addressed:

xfce pol kit lets others sneak in
https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-polkit/issues/5

That's not a huge security hole and it doesn't let others sneak in unless they have access to your user for some reason.  That's also standard behaviour for sudo.

So basically, if I enter the root password once into the
pol kit, the pol kit allows me to run as many more
root only commands as a stand user as I want for the
next two minutes.

How in the world is that not a security hole?

Why would it be? You just authenticated yourself. Why is it a problem to let you stay authenticated for a few minutes? What do you think could happen?
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