[Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#1025629: Bug#1025629: Use of PolicyKit by Sugar

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting James Cameron (2022-12-06 20:30:10)
> Sugar uses pkexec to elevate privilege to control backlight and get
> device serial number.  Processes are forked to run shell scripts.  The
> command line is prefixed with pkexec.
> 
> I don't know of any D-Bus use of PolicyKit, nor any use of the
> PyGObject API.
> 
> Hope that helps!

Great help.  Thanks!

 - Jonas

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