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Who's in charge? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Some do. I'm sure it is possible with terminal programs. In KDE, you do get authenticator pop-ups.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Hmm I just tried editing some systemd service with Kate and it did actually give me an authenticator popup when I tried to save it

    Although then the prompt expired and now it does nothing when I try to save it. Restarted Kate and now it works again...

    I haven't tried that before

    When I try to go into the sudoers.d folder tho it just says I can't, and the same thing happens when I try to open the sudoers file in Kate. If I try to copy and paste a systemd service in dolphin tho it just says I don't have permission and doesn't give a prompt.

    lol if I open it with nano through sudo it says 'sudoers is meant to be read only'

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    With arch+xfce4 I mostly don't. Except for when I do systemctl reload in a cli without sudo and it pops a surprise elevation password request gui in my face. I haven't figured out what makes it behave like that.

    I use Arch btw 👉🧐 eats booger

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    That’s the result of polkit (policy kit) authentication agents. These are typically DE-specific for their GUIs.

    pkexec is comparable to sudo and can be used from the terminal to get the graphical prompt for elevated commands.

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