GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #34326, Ship a PolicyKit action to reboot...
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bug #34326: Ship a PolicyKit action to reboot into different OS
Submitter: | Andrew <and471> | ||
Submitted: | Sun 18 Sep 2011 09:47:47 AM UTC | ||
Category: | None | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | Feature Request |
Status: | Wont Fix | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | Bazaar - trunk |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | None |
Wed 29 Feb 2012 08:05:22 PM UTC, comment #5: |
Andrew <and471> |
Wed 29 Feb 2012 07:37:52 PM UTC, comment #4: "PolicyKit simply provides organisation and a means by which unprivileged users can perform privileged actions. "
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Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Wed 29 Feb 2012 04:35:50 PM UTC, comment #3: Hi, is this going to get re-opened? You haven't responded to my comment. |
Andrew <and471> |
Wed 28 Sep 2011 03:41:34 PM UTC, comment #2: PolicyKit simply provides organisation and a means by which unprivileged users can perform privileged actions.
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Andrew <and471> |
Wed 28 Sep 2011 12:41:51 PM UTC, comment #1: I'm not familiar with PolicyKit but it's surely a bad idea to allow every user to be able to run grub-reboot by default (it's fine though if admin decides otherwise). I also think that the third party software shouldn't mess with security settings (it may provide examples though). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but if I understand the purpose of this file correctly it's a won't fix. |
Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder> |
Sun 18 Sep 2011 09:47:47 AM UTC, original submission:
grub-reboot is a great tool that grub ships, which makes it easy to reboot into a different OS, however one issue with it is that it requires root permissions to run.
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Andrew <and471> |
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Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
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2011-09-28 | phcoder | Status | None | Wont Fix | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
2011-09-18 | and471 | Attached File | - | Added grub.grubreboot.policy, #23989 |
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But this is not adding anything that a user cannot currently do.
It simply provides a piece of text and an explanation of what this action is doing, it doesn't mean bypassing sudo or anything.
For example, at the moment if I run
pkexec grub-reboot
It asks me for my password, and if the admin of this PC says so, then I can run /usr/sbin/grub-reboot as root
However if this file was shipped, everything would be the same, except that when the window popped up asking for my password, there would be an appropriate message there.