The motivation for replacing dbus with sudo/gksu/kdesudo is that PolicyKit is meant to run specific commands with predefined privileges. This works well for applications like Jockey, for example, where the backend has a well defined behavior which can be audited for security purposes. However, for other applications like Checkbox, this is not possible because the backend needs to run arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. So, my understanding is that the user should effectively be prompted to be a super user in order to securely run arbitrary commands with such privileges.
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