Re:Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CV...
by throwawaysysd on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:59AM
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I agree it's not particularly useful for home users, I expect most would go with the defaults provided by their distro and leave it there. This is meant for corporate deployments where sysadmins might need to write more advanced policies.
I am sure that somewhere having an actual programming language available vs list of what can and can't be run with or without a password would enable some additional power in terms of control of the system but I cannot for the life of me imagine a situation where it would be all that useful.