
Hello, the SUSE security team recently decided to turn the rpmlint check "polkit-untracked-privilege" into an error. Currently this is only an informational message. If you get messages like these in your package: gvfs-backends.x86_64: I: polkit-untracked-privilege org.gtk.vfs.file-operations (no:no:auth_admin_keep) then they will become an error with 10.000 extra badness in the future, as is the case with other polkit related errors. This affects all packages in openSUSE:Factory. The rationale behind that is that even though these polkit rules seem harmless (only locally logged in users with admin privileges can acquire the polkit privilege), they can expose security issues. This is because the correct enforcement of the polkit policy is depending on the individual package's polkit adaption. Therefore such packages must go through a review process with the security team. You can trigger this process by opening a bug against security-team@suse.de and adding an AUDIT prefix to the bug summary. For more about this please refer to this wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_security_guidelines We don't expect many packages to be affected by this. If you have any questions please reach out to us. Thank you Matthias -- Matthias Gerstner <matthias.gerstner@suse.de> Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. (FH), Security Engineer https://www.suse.com/security Telefon: +49 911 740 53 290 GPG Key ID: 0x14C405C971923553 SUSE Linux GmbH GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg)