ConsoleKit (0.2.10) / PolicyKit / Security hole

2008-07-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, first of all, I hope that ubuntu-devel-discuss is the correct email address for contacting the Ubuntu maintainers of consolekit and policykit (taken from debian/control). I've also CCed Martin just in case. On to my actual issue: Today I started updating consolekit to 0.2.10-1 in Debian.

Re: ConsoleKit (0.2.10) / PolicyKit / Security hole

2008-07-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Martin Pitt wrote: Michael Biebl [2008-07-19 6:47 +0200]: Problem now is, if you disable the PolicyKit support, the restart/stop functions are unprotected, and everyone (even through ssh logins) can shutdown/reboot the system. For fun try [3] from an unpriviledged user account. See

Re: libnl 1.0-pre7 is out

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb: > Hey folks, so libnl-1.0-pre7 is out. > > http://www.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/ > > This guy adds libnl support which we need for nl80211 support (Linux > wireless). Just sending a friendly reminder out in hopes we can start > moving to it soon. NetworkManager does not compi