They show no password prompt for the user with the “active” session for removable drives. Only system drives always require admin auth for formatting and partitioning. Maybe your session setup is not completely correct so your user session is not marked as the active session or you tried it with a drive that is considered a system drive.
I mean the exact same 2.8GB file, with the exact same USB-C stick took FU***** 3 seconds on Linux !!
For that test you should run sync afterwards to make sure the file was really written and is not waiting in a cache.
It is possible to format removable drives without root access through udisks2, e.g with gnome-disks or KDE ISO image writer. GNOME Impression is another tool that should work.
The relevant polkit policies should be defined here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/login/org.freedesktop.login1.policy
Disabling is done with some rules like this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=152565
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id.indexOf("org.freedesktop.login1.power-off") == 0) {
return polkit.Result.AUTH_ADMIN;
}
});
Some other examples: https://gist.github.com/grawity/3886114
Is it common for cups to run as root? It should have its own user, but that is still not good.
Hmm, never had cups-browsed enabled as I do not need network printing with LDAP or legacy cups. Discovery using DNS-SD/mDNS and driverless printing work perfectly fine without it.
I am not sure if the driverless discovery ever can generate a PPD with arbitrary commands.
For Linux maybe timekpr-next and some custom scripts to sync the time with the time limit server?
ReactOS is probably a good indicator how far you can get with some limited generic drivers.
So it could be testing the feasability of the next sattelite that will be a weapon with a different aperture size.