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		digi_owl on June 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I dislike systemd I can't tell the difference between sudo and polkit, except that the latter comes with some XML based presets and can be talked to via RPC (dbus).

groks on June 16, 2015 [–]

The difference appears to be that the sudoers file supports the finite set of access checks the authors of sudo anticipated. If you need something more elaborate than that, write arbitrary javascript to the polkit api.

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