Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/02/2020 à 08:24, Tito via Dng a écrit : On 2/14/20 3:37 AM, Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote: Does this help? You've probably seen this already. https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/gksu-is-dead-long-live-pkexec/ https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/0.105/pkexec.1.html O

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Anno domini 2020 Fri, 14 Feb 11:30:03 +0100 Didier Kryn scripsit: > Le 14/02/2020 à 08:24, Tito via Dng a écrit : > > On 2/14/20 3:37 AM, Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote: > >> Does this help? You've probably seen this already. > >> > >> https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/gksu-is-dead-long-l

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Tito via Dng
On 2/14/20 11:30 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 14/02/2020 à 08:24, Tito via Dng a écrit : On 2/14/20 3:37 AM, Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote: Does this help? You've probably seen this already. https://mike632t.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/gksu-is-dead-long-live-pkexec/ https://www.freedesktop.org/

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/02/2020 à 12:29, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp a écrit : Anno domini 2020 Fri, 14 Feb 11:30:03 +0100 Didier Kryn scripsit: Le 14/02/2020 à 08:24, Tito via Dng a écrit : On 2/14/20 3:37 AM, Ozi Traveller via Dng wrote: Does this help? You've probably seen this already. https://mike632t.wordpr

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/02/2020 à 13:14, Tito via Dng a écrit : Hi, did you try?     Yes I did :~) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread aitor
Hi, En 14 de febrero de 2020 14:15:05 Didier Kryn escribió: Le 14/02/2020 à 13:14, Tito via Dng a écrit : Hi, did you try? Yes I did :~) Thanks a lot, i'll aply this method to my popupmenu. Aitor ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.o

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] [PATCH] (security) launcher: don't attempt to execute arbitrary binaries

2020-02-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:22:23PM -0800, tom wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:27:40 +0100 > Evilham via Dng wrote: > > > Hello Enrico, > > > > On dt., gen. 07 2020, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > > What might supposed to be convenience functionality, poses a > > > real-life > > > security threa

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr): > AFAIR sudo does not transmit the X session. I heard years ago > of something called sudox. Dunno if it is available somewhere. I > dislike pkexec [...] You're a man of wise instincts, Didier. ;-> Here's a Linuxmafia.com Knowledgebase article I try to brin

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dr. Nikolaus Klepp (dr.kl...@gmx.at): > There was a "sux" on ascii (or was it lenny?), that did thi thing for > su. Pity, it's gone. It is, however, an extremely simple shell wrapper around su. http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml -- Cheers,

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-02-14 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 14/02/2020 à 22:01, Rick Moen a écrit : Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr): AFAIR sudo does not transmit the X session. I heard years ago of something called sudox. Dunno if it is available somewhere. I dislike pkexec [...] You're a man of wise instincts, Didier. ;->     Thanks :~) This

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-14 Thread Owen
Thanks to all who replied and especially to "Pontus Goffe via Dng" One of the many things I didn't know of was "ncdu" (so I installed it via Synaptic"). Apologies for the simplistic ap[proach to writing this back, it's so other newbies like me might understand what to do and how :-) So the ans

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Owen (o...@gonwanda.net): > So the answer is that both /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log are > both 18GB large - see details below. tl;dr: A hardware-based bug is making the ACPI handler stumble and respawn, quickly, over and over and over and Perhaps you should consider updatin

Re: [DNG] Clean install of ascii: / is huge ~ 40gb

2020-02-14 Thread Owen
Thanks Rick, Intel NUC series NUC7I5BNK Gen7 Core i5 - so Kaby Lake i5-7260U processor BIOS updated on 3 Feb., just prior to installing ASCII with: BIOS Update [BNKBL357.86A] dated: 1/14/2020 A reboot leaves the syslog and kern.log files at about 9kb with only one ACPI error in each. Good eno