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

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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