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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: PolicyKit + KDE
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-09-02 17:23:27
Message-ID: 200909021923.28209.thiago () kde ! org
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Em Quarta-feira 02 Setembro 2009, às 09:53:46, você escreveu:
> 2009/9/2 Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>:
> > Em Quarta-feira 2. Setembro 2009, Ã s 09.01.27, John Tapsell escreveu:
> >> 2009/9/2 Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>:
> >> > Em Quarta-feira 2. Setembro 2009, Ã s 02.09.15, Matthew Woehlke 
escreveu:
> >> >> That said, I guess I don't understand how PK works that this is even
> >> >> needed. If PK says "user may edit <certain things>", why does it
> >> >> matter if the user does that via package from packaged KDE, /bin/vi,
> >> >> or some cobbled-together C program they just compiled? Since you are
> >> >> talking about installing policy files I must guess that this is not
> >> >> how PK works?
> >> >
> >> > Please note that the problem isn't PolicyKit.
> >>
> >> But it is about PolicyKit - KSysGuard uses policykit to kill processes
> >> etc, and so has to install those files.
> >
> > You forgot to add that it asks policykit to kill processes because
> > ksysguard's process lister is being run under a different UID now.
> >
> > Why doesn't the user front-end kill user processes?
> 
> If the process is owned by the user, then it doesn't need policy kit.
> Policykit is only used to kill processes not owned by the user.
> 
> E.g. A normal user wants to kill a root process.

Exactly. That's a new feature, a privilege elevation that before wasn't 
possible.

This doesn't show a PolicyKit problem. It's a new feature we didn't have.

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