$ systemctl restart NetworkManager ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ==== Authentication is required to restart 'NetworkManager.service'. Authenticating as: user Password:
systemctl poweroff Powers off immediately. Haha, wow.
Does "knowing about polkit rules" make them less retarded?
Can you provide one (1) reason why this is good? inb4 every use case must be laptop users because freedesktop bullshit
Logan Davis
>systemd
Jaxson Jenkins
If you don't like that, fucking change the configuration. Nobody wants to enter their password and have permissions to turn their computer off. Also, it won't work if multiple users are logged in, or you're using a remote session; in that case you do need to have extra permissions.
Andrew Martin
poettering self-assigned this poettering added the not-our-bug label poettering closed this ... poettering got cash from upstream (Red-Hat, CIA)
Lincoln Smith
poettering referenced this issue
> Thanks for your detailed reply @poettering
Gavin King
I told you about systemd
Ayden Bennett
poettering commented
(i sympathesize though, as I keep running into this myself actually all the time, but so far it didn't annoy me enough to do something about it. Hence by all means, please file a bug against polkit, and let's get this fixed there for good)
Ayden Phillips
red hat basically specifics in their manuals to turn this off if wanted. also Debian. gtfo kids
Evan Sanders
It just feels unpolished buddy.
Why require auth for restarting NetworkManager?
Christopher Russell
Because it's a system-level service, and you need permissions to do anything with those. You can change the polkit rules to make those passwordless too.
Chase Thomas
ahahahah systemd ahahahahah
Alexander Garcia
>Powering off the computer is not a system level service
Charles Baker
Sure, but it's a compromise for usability. You'd get more people complaining if it worked the other way.
Hudson Nguyen
I'm turning it off my removing polkit and systemd. It's just easier to have sanity back than constantly cleaning up my configs after Poettering decides to change a major security settings for *everyone* by default again.
Jose Brooks
Ok, but I don't want to fuck with configs, I'd have stayed a ricer if this was the case. I'm 300% more likely to want to restart networking because irl wlans are shitty than to fucking shut down my machine passwordless (which I can do on a physical level anyway).