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>>>>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> was asked about this at IRC today, so I suppose we should convey this |
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> information better to users |
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> Title: Default value of AdminIdentities changed to group wheel in PolicyKit |
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Too long, GLEP 42 allows a maximum of 44 characters (excluding "Title: "). |
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> Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> |
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> Posted: 2012-01-30 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: sys-auth/polkit |
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> The default value of AdminIdentities changed to group wheel by upstream |
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> since version 0.103. |
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Maybe the package name sys-auth/polkit should appear somewhere in the |
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item's body text? |
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> This means users in group wheel are allowed to execute commands like |
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> "pkexec bash" to gain root shell. |
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> You can change the default value at: |
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> # $EDITOR /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf |
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