On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 02:21:19PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > My best recollection is that pkexec was kinda a kludge to allow us to > get rid of consolehelper: some apps weren't getting rewritten to the > Right Way of doing things under policykit, they still just wanted to > have the entire app run as root, and pkexec was a way to make that > happen. That sounds right to me too. I mean not "right", but what happened. I'd also love to get rid of the entire javascript configuration system. That's... more CVEs waiting to happen. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
