It’s a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict’s idea of a CLI tool.
It’s almost like trying to squish different security architectures on top of each other doesn’t work well. It’s a nice idea, but it was either not going to work smoothly or be a big security issue.
That cat is so CUTE!
so it’s basically the same thing as sudo as long as you don’t do nopasswd in sudoers?
sounds like a good thing.
On Linux it’s a CLI privilege escalation program, having a GUI pop up when you can just take user input from the terminal the user is already using is kinda…
There’s a reason why pkexec is a separate thing from sudo on Linux. Two separate programs that handle two separate tasks. Sudo is intended for CLI. pkexec is intended for GUI applications and is provided by the Polkit framework. It’s that pointless work flow slow down you hate to see.
