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Rpisp

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Registered: 2021-04-19

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policy kit

It seems no matter how long I'm on Linux, the question of how to set up policy kit never gets easier.

Typically I just completely ignore it and use sudo for my needs (nopasswd in sudoers)

Is it advisable to go about things this way, or should I be setting up policy kit?

Is policy kit even necessary?

Sorry for my ignorance but I have to ask

Any help would be appreciated thank you

Last edited by Rpisp (2021-04-21 22:07:20)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: policy kit

For what purpose do you want to set up policy kit?

If you want to use pkexec to launch GUI applications with superuser privileges (which is a bad idea) then you can create some authorisation rules for the programs. See the files provided by synaptic & gparted for examples of this.

Is policy kit even necessary?

No.

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Rpisp

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Re: policy kit

While I have synaptic installed (for now, prefer apt) it did not create any policy pkla file?
In fact the folder is empty.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: policy kit

What folder? The file is at /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic.policy

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