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    It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.

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    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

    It's almost like trying to squish different security architectures on top of each other doesn't work well. It's a nice idea, but it was either not going to work smoothly or be a big security issue.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That cat is so CUTE!

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    so it's basically the same thing as sudo as long as you don't do nopasswd in sudoers?

    sounds like a good thing.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    On Linux it's a CLI privilege escalation program, having a GUI pop up when you can just take user input from the terminal the user is already using is kinda...
    There's a reason why pkexec is a separate thing from sudo on Linux. Two separate programs that handle two separate tasks. Sudo is intended for CLI. pkexec is intended for GUI applications and is provided by the Polkit framework. It's that pointless work flow slow down you hate to see.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    If only it worked on systems with a banner enabled.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

    Meanwhile you can bypass uac(as an admin user) using the fucking help window. They're all over the place.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I thought you can activate inline mode if you don't like the UAC pop-up.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Inline mode only means that the elevated command runs in the same terminal instead of opening a new window. You still have to get past the UAC prompt.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    So if I'm understanding correctly they now let you type a command to open a new window to check your credentials (like polkit?) instead of asking for it in the tty? And the only new thing is that you can elevate your privileges in an existing tty (before you would need to start a separate admin terminal right?)

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    OK but why were you getting aroused by a tool?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    have you met linux users

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    So basically GIT_ASKPASS

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    No way the Union Aerospace Corporation