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Erm, it’s the other way - if you disable it, those checks would always fail, because the component responsible for elevating permissions is missing.

And, honesty, I don’t see how those prompts (or functionality they gate) make the system more useful.

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If those checks always fail, you've now lost that functionality to do anything requiring elevated permissions and made your system less useful. You could get it back by installing a suid root tool like sudo/doas but that opens the same hole again that elevates these problems from a crash into a CVE.

I don't want or need popup permission prompts. If something needs to run as root, I run it as root from the console, as God intended. In the process I am assuredly avoiding all sorts of potential security vulnerabilities, such as this polkit code which is not installed on my system. Now get off my lawn.

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