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

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 02:21:19PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> My best recollection is that pkexec was kinda a kludge to allow us to
> get rid of consolehelper: some apps weren't getting rewritten to the
> Right Way of doing things under policykit, they still just wanted to
> have the entire app run as root, and pkexec was a way to make that
> happen.

That sounds right to me too. I mean not "right", but what happened.

I'd also love to get rid of the entire javascript configuration system.
That's... more CVEs waiting to happen.


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