Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE slow / console-kit-daemon POLKIT_IS_AUTHORITY failed

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 06:56:20 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:

> Right, only GDM (the display manager for GNOME) has dropped ConsoleKit
> support so far, that I know, in versions 3.8 and later
> So other than GNOME, ConsoleKit is still a go -- thus, compatible with
> OpenRC based system

I tried USE="-consolekit" but it does not help.
 
> For KDE it might be something else than dbus-glib that needs a
> recompile, I'd imagine something like kdelibs or polkit-kde-agent, or
> both It could be something else too,

This problem has been there for a couple of years, it's reasonable to
assume that all KDE components have been recompiled several times in that
period. In fact, both of those were rebuilt by emerge -e dbus dbus-glib.

> but setting the suid bit on
> dbus-daemon-launch-helper is stupidest idea ever, that *really* allows
> anyone to gain root

Just to be clear, the SUID bit is set by default, I set the other execute
bit (o+x). The file already has group execute permissions, but adding my
user to the messagebus group makes no difference

> However if you run a machine with single user and no open ports on the
> machine whatsoever, the attack vector is propably very small, but I
> still wouldn't do it

The alternative is to stop using KDE, since none of the proposed
solutions, nor anything else I've tried, make any difference.

Edit: Dropping KDE may not make much difference, I still get these
messages when booting without X.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?

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