nixos/polkit: remove root from adminIdentities
Fixes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/75075.
To summarize the report in the aforementioned issue, at a glance,
it's a different default than what upstream polkit has. Apparently
for 8+ years polkit defaults admin identities as members of
the wheel group [0]. This assumption would be appropriate on NixOS, where
every member of group 'wheel' is necessarily privileged.
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The fourStore and fourStoreEndpoint modules have been removed.
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The fourStore and fourStoreEndpoint modules have been removed.
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<para>
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Polkit no longer has the user of uid 0 (root) as an admin identity.
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We now follow the upstream default of only having every member of the wheel
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group admin privileged. Before it was root and members of wheel.
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The positive outcome of this is pkexec GUI popups or terminal prompts
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will no longer require the user to choose between two essentially equivalent
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choices (whether to perform the action as themselves with wheel permissions, or as the root user).
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security.polkit.adminIdentities = mkOption {
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security.polkit.adminIdentities = mkOption {
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type = types.listOf types.str;
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type = types.listOf types.str;
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default = [ "unix-user:0" "unix-group:wheel" ];
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default = [ "unix-group:wheel" ];
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example = [ "unix-user:alice" "unix-group:admin" ];
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example = [ "unix-user:alice" "unix-group:admin" ];
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description =
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description =
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''
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Specifies which users are considered “administrators”, for those
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Specifies which users are considered “administrators”, for those
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actions that require the user to authenticate as an
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actions that require the user to authenticate as an
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administrator (i.e. have an <literal>auth_admin</literal>
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administrator (i.e. have an <literal>auth_admin</literal>
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value). By default, this is the <literal>root</literal>
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value). By default, this is all users in the <literal>wheel</literal> group.
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user and all users in the <literal>wheel</literal> group.
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};
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