pkexec binary package in Ubuntu Oracular armhf
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.
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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.
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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.
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If this functionality is not required, removing the pkexec package will
reduce security risk by removing a setuid program.
Publishing history
Date | Status | Target | Component | Section | Priority | Phased updates | Version | ||
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2024-05-08 14:04:02 UTC | Published | Ubuntu Oracular armhf | release | main | admin | Optional | 124-2ubuntu1 | ||
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