The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 6 days agoWho's in charge?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squaredubyakay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoWith arch+xfce4 I mostly don’t. Except for when I do systemctl reload <service> 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
minus-squarem0stlyharmless@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 days agoThat’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.
With arch+xfce4 I mostly don’t. Except for when I do systemctl reload <service> 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
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.