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

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 01:04:39PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> gksu and its ilk aren't substantially better than pkexec. A proper solution
> would be talking to a system service over dbus (or some other protocol).

Yeah, it's just that no one has published exploits for those yet. :)


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