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exikyut on Dec 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: German BSI withholds Truecrypt security report

Shhhhhhhhhh.

Stop giving systemd more ideas.

(/s)

(But seriously, imagine a world where you can't get root because D-Bus crashed.)

ATsch on Dec 17, 2019 [–]

PolicyKit essentially already does this, and all of the systemd *ctl commands support authentication via polkit

exikyut on Dec 18, 2019 | [–]

TIL (so that's what the whole PolicyKit thing was all about).

Now I'm wondering what its worst case crash behavior is like.

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