Closed polkit-github-migration-bot closed 6 months ago
In gitlab.freedesktop.org by bluca on Oct 8, 2023, 20:32
Fixed by https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/197 and https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/193
In gitlab.freedesktop.org by Atsutane on Sep 19, 2023, 16:21
Link to the original issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/issues/205
Current behaviour, description of the problem
A non-root user is granted permissions to start, stop and restart a specific systemd service without an interactive password request for the root password. With the previously mentioned commit this no longer works and the password of root is requested.
Desired behaviour
The expected behavior would be rule based authentication:
What happens now is:
Reproducer
Create a simple service and define a rule which grants a non-root user permission to manage this without an interactive request for a password not-related to this user.
Detailed description
[Version of polkit]: git based 8cabb1183aea59ccff125d0e2367fe5c8ac50b62 [Version of OS]: Arch Linux