Assuming that the reply to my earlier post (should I be in the input
group?) is 'no', can somebody please spare some time to explain how
authorisation via polkit (which I think is the intended route to
gaining access to /dev/input/event*) is supposed to work ?
I've built polkit with the patch for elogind. Both dbus and elogind
have been started.
First question: should polkitd be running (i.e. visible in ps aux)
or does it only fire up to respond to dbus, and then shut down again
?
Second question: how is the user who started xorg authenticated by
polkitd ?
Looking at the man pages, all rules files in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
and /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d are processed in lexical order (in
the event of a tie, the file in /etc is processed first). But on
this completed system I only have three files in those two
directories:
/etc/polkit/rules.d/50-default-rules which seems to be checking if
admin users are in the wheel group, and in
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d I have
org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules and
org.gtk.vfs.file-operations.rules from building those packages at a
later stage.
I don't see anything that would cause polkitd to grant access to me
via elogind.
At this point, I'm clearly out of my depth, and I will not be
updating further systems (nor reviewing if the kernel config for
elogind is adequate, nor if the mountcgroupfs and elogind
bootscripts are really needed) unless I can understand where my
build/usage of elogind is failing.
ĸen
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