Interaction multiplexing

Posted Dec 22, 2025 14:11 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Interaction multiplexing by taladar
Parent article: Conill: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

Polkit sits on DBus, so you're stuck with a "proper" agent there. The systemd protocol is "drop files in a directory", so you could definitely use notification actions to trigger the actual prompt (systemd-gnome-ask-password-agent does this). It also scans on startup and sends notifications for anything "laying around" when it starts up. Just need something that doesn't rely on a GUI and notification daemon (the TTY agent I mentioned).