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Along with many Linux distributions, because they ship PolicyKit policies allowing some of these things by default. That said, Solaris is used on servers and sh

by obtu 15y ago

Along with many Linux distributions, because they ship PolicyKit policies allowing some of these things by default. That said, Solaris is used on servers and should probably default to a reduced attack surface over convenience.

reidrac 15y ago
It looks like PolicyKit is a little bit unknown, although all major distributions have been using it for a while. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit The Wikipedia page works very well as TL;DR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolicyKit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolicyKit