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

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:26:58AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> something needing *pkexec*. Though from what we've found in this
> thread, it seems like at least GNOME and KDE definitely do still need
> it. I'm not enough of a domain expert to know if it's realistic to
> rewrite everything in GNOME and KDE that relies on pkexec to use a
> different mechanism.

I wouldn't call myself a domain expert on this, but ...
cc-remote-login-helper at least should be able to be updated. (It's making
dbus calls to systemd to enable sshd.)

Other stuff may be more like fundamentally replacing the whole app/tool.

I wonder if a first step might be to split out pkexec into a subpackage, and
then gradually remove requirements on it.


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