Re: PolicyKit and malware, was: What I HATE about F11

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:02:22AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> The retained authorization is only valid for the subject that obtained
> it, which will typically be a process (identified by process id and
> start time) or a canonical bus name. And your malware does not have
> either.

Can the malware inject code into the process which gained the
authentication (eg. using ptrace)?

Rich.

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