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Auzy astroturfed...
Not even remotely close to being the same thing.
I can't speak about policykit, but I know at least in Ubuntu when I get hit by sudo and have to elevate permissions I get that password request--which proves that I have rights to the system. Moreover it remembers that I have elevated rights for awhile, so I can get whatever it was I was trying to do done.
UAC just looks over at me through bleary eyes and asks: "Are you sure you want to do that?" Then once I've told it that, yes I know that I'm performing a potentially dangerous system task, that might require elevated permissions to be granted--it doesn't ask me to authenticate myself. It just hits me up with several more warnings as I go along, never once asking me to prove I have the right to perform these potentially dangerous actions.
Yes, with sudo may be a bit annoying to have to play "Simon says," but at least the OS is aware that I AM Simon! UAC is a joke.
Auzy astroturfed...
How quickly they forget...
http://www.osnews.com/story/19620/_Vista_s_UAC_Security_Prompt_Was_...
Read the article and you'll see quite clearly that yes, UAC was designed to irritate you, not to be functional.
--bornagainpenguin