Package: pkexec

Version: 122-3 amd64

Source: policykit-1

Depends: polkitd (= 122-3), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpolkit-agent-1-0 (= 122-3), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 122-3)

Description:

run commands as another user with polkit authorization polkit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. It was previously named PolicyKit. . pkexec is a setuid program to allow certain users to run commands as root or as a different user, similar to sudo. Unlike sudo, it carries out authentication and authorization by sending a request to polkit, so it uses desktop environments' familiar prompting mechanisms for authentication and uses polkit policies for authorization decisions. . By default, members of the 'sudo' Unix group can use pkexec to run any command after authenticating. The authorization rules can be changed by the local system administrator. . If this functionality is not required, removing the pkexec package will reduce security risk by removing a setuid program.

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