>>>>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Samuli Suominen wrote: > was asked about this at IRC today, so I suppose we should convey this > information better to users
> Title: Default value of AdminIdentities changed to group wheel in PolicyKit Too long, GLEP 42 allows a maximum of 44 characters (excluding "Title: "). > Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2012-01-30 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Installed: sys-auth/polkit > The default value of AdminIdentities changed to group wheel by upstream > since version 0.103. Maybe the package name sys-auth/polkit should appear somewhere in the item's body text? > This means users in group wheel are allowed to execute commands like > "pkexec bash" to gain root shell. > You can change the default value at: > # $EDITOR /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf
