On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 12:10 AM, David Edmundson < da...@davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> Can we keep all messages on the ML. We can only see half a conversation on > here. > > I wasn't subscribed to the ML so some parts of conversation were not there. > TBH I can't see how any application will bypass the prompt > > A rogue plugin can call org.kde.kio.file.exec directly with kauth. Or > even just use DBus directly. > The "privilege execution" feature requires a persistent polkit action for proper functioning. For example, deleting a folder from /opt containing 100 files will call org.kde.kio.file.exec 100 times and without persistence it will result in 100 prompts. Even though the issue you have pointed is valid, with my limited knowledge of polkit I can't think of any alternative solution. Is there any?
