On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 19:09 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > 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)? Once you have malware running in your session, there's probably more important stuff to worry about, like all your data in ~/.firefox... Anyway, further discussion about details of PolicyKit would be much better on polkit-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Matthias -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list