https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1992

--- Comment #18 from Mohamed El Morabity <pikachu.2...@gmail.com> 2012-01-19 
10:28:39 CET ---
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > Having a graphical prompt asking for the root password is a security hole?
> pkexec requests the currently running user's password (like sudo), and will
> fail if the logged in user doesn't have authorization for the requested task
> via PolicyKit.
No, it will require the root password, and only this password, unless a
specific PolicyKit conf. file is written to change this behaviour (according to
« man pkexec »).

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