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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-04-11 18:50:16 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-04-11 20:39:03 +0200
commit6bb92a169e8a65e7def5545798001e0dbecc7d4f (patch)
tree5a7c6946959d62ee3bafb55f932a2e0f7e809c45 /man/systemctl.xml
parentf25626edf4c39bb9409cb165e6ce9551dd130661 (diff)
polkit: temporarily spawn of a polkit agent in terminals for possibly authenticated operations
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diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
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@@ -299,11 +299,13 @@
<command>systemctl</command> will
query the user on the terminal for the
necessary secrets. Use this option to
- switch this behavior off. In this
- case the password must be supplied by
- some other means (for example
- graphical password agents) or the
- service might fail.</para></listitem>
+ switch this behavior off. In this case
+ the password must be supplied by some
+ other means (for example graphical
+ password agents) or the service might
+ fail. This also disables querying the
+ user for authentication for privileged
+ operations.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
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