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Who's in charge? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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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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