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.
It’s not a bug in the kernel, the bug is in polkit. If you don’t have polkit installed you are fine.
@strubbl@lemmy.ml this is true, please fix the title.
Which distributions have polkit installed by default? Which applications need polkit? Do you have polkit installed?
Most that come with a desktop environment. (idk if the non-systemd versions are vulnerable though)
If you get a password prompt when a program needs higher privileges it most likely uses polkit.
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.
Or
gksudo, those were the times…