• Helix@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    @strubbl@lemmy.ml this is true, please fix the title.

    If you don’t have polkit installed you are fine.

    Which distributions have polkit installed by default? Which applications need polkit? Do you have polkit installed?

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      3 years ago

      Which distributions have polkit installed by default?

      Most that come with a desktop environment. (idk if the non-systemd versions are vulnerable though)

      Which applications need polkit?

      If you get a password prompt when a program needs higher privileges it most likely uses polkit.

      Do you have polkit installed?

      Nope, I just couldn’t get it to work :D It’s pretty annoying because some programs don’t work without it, but most of the time you shouldn’t be running those anyway.

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        3 years ago

        If you get a password prompt when a program needs higher privileges it most likely uses polkit.

        Or gksudo, those were the times…