On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 16:22 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > Hmm, it might be nice to have library API for doing all this since it is > rather complicated. Like, we'd have some code in polkit-gobject-1 to do > the server side bits and maybe a polkit-gtk-1 library for the client > side bits. Unfortunately we don't have a nice D-Bus library for GLib > just yet so it is not yet feasible to do the server side bits just > yet...
I thought a bit more about this and there's really no reason it has to be as complicated as I originally described. So I've just added a libpolkit-gtk-1.so library to polkit-gnome with a PolkitLockButton widget that does all this without having to involve the mechanism http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit-gtk/ This widget is only useful for control center stuff but since there's a good chunk of these, this work will probably end up paying off down the road. Here's a simple example of how to use it http://git.gnome.org/cgit/PolicyKit-gnome/tree/polkitgtk/example.c (Implementation-wise we now allow unprivileged callers to check authorizations for processes they own themselves. There's a twist though, details (as consumed by PolkitBackendLookupInfo extensions) can't be passed when checking authorizations, as this would introduce a security hole since (dialogs could be spoofed).) David _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
