On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 01:12:12AM +0100, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 05:57:10PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
> > On 8/24/19 4:38 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
> >
> > polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
> > return ["unix-group:wheel"];
> > });
> >
> > On my system, I am a member of the wheel group, but I didn't add that
> > recently. It is legacy. Are you a member of the wheel group?
>
> No. I don't really want to be (if ken is running something that
> needs root access, he ought to have to 'su' to remind him of the
> dangers ;) But I do remember there was _something_ about being a
> member of the wheel group in the past few months, although I don't
> remember the details.
>
We've since established that being in the wheel group is not
necessary for rootless X, but I'm coming back to add an explanation
of the above rule which I found in the Arch wiki during my continual
"stumbling around in the dark in google results" :
That rule says users in the wheel group *can* authenticate, But to
do that they need to input a password, either via a desktop agent
such as lxpolkit, polkit-gnome, xfce-polkit or else using the tty
fallback of pkttyagent from polkit itself.
ĸen
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