Hi, I suspect that some package update is to blame, but my home Fedora 10 (too busy - or lazy - to upgrade to 11) has recently acquired something called PolicyKit, probably as a dependency of something else.
It seems to be a complicated and cumbersome authentication/security framework that so far has not done me much harm (I think), but I blame it for popping up annoying and meaningless (to me) "authorization dialog" forms requiring username and password for all kinds of weird things, URLs, etc. http://scripts.felloweb.com comes to mind as one of the recent ones, I tried to check what it is but the site requires a password from a browser as well, I still don't know what it is). I tried to google, to read the docs, and to poke around the system. I added result="yes" to the config file for my user to tell it I can do anything I want on my computer. What I really want to do is to kill the beast once and for all. It looks incredibly complicated, I can't make sense of the documentation (and I am pretty good at parsing manuals, if I say so myself), and for the life of me I can't figure out why, on top of sudo, pam, SElinux, and everything else I need this thing from the fscking Gnome (pardon my French - I don't even use Gnome, but there is PolicyKit-kde as well). Does anyone know how I can disable the bloody thing globally so that it shuts up once and for all? I am wary of uninstalling it bluntly after I tried to trace the RPM dependencies and got lost in the forest - the dependency net is cast widely indeed. Is it safe to "rpm -e --nodeps"? Will anything serious break? Thanks in advance, -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
