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

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> BTW, bonus follow-up to this: as part of researching the background of
> polkit, I noticed that we never actually entirely got done moving off
> usermode :( There are still over a dozen packages in the distro that
> require it:
>
> anaconda-live-0:36.15-1.fc36.x86_64
> beesu-0:2.7-40.fc35.x86_64
> chkrootkit-0:0.55-3.fc35.x86_64
> hddtemp-0:0.3-0.49.beta15.fc35.x86_64
> mate-system-log-0:1.26.0-1.fc35.x86_64
> mock-0:2.16-1.fc36.noarch
> pure-ftpd-0:1.0.49-11.fc36.x86_64
> setuptool-0:1.19.11-23.fc35.x86_64
> subscription-manager-0:1.29.21-1.fc36.x86_64
> system-config-rootpassword-0:1.99.6-25.fc35.noarch
> system-switch-java-0:1.1.8-6.fc35.noarch
> system-switch-mail-0:2.0.1-14.fc35.noarch
> usermode-gtk-0:1.114-3.fc35.x86_64
> vpnc-consoleuser-0:0.5.3-42.svn550.fc35.x86_64
> xawtv-0:3.107-5.fc35.x86_64
>
> the tracker bug for the conversion is still hanging out at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502765 , never quite got
> closed. Don't suppose anyone wants to see whether this could be pushed
> over the line...?

Most of those appear to be legacy and shouldn't be parts of key
blocker artifacts. I'm surprised that things like subscription-manager
hasn't been moved but in the Fedora context it's basically irrelevant.
Interestingly I fixed/cleaned up usbview recently which also used it.
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