On Friday 09 April 2010 01:49:22 linux fan wrote:> > Most things run fine without Kauth ... except setting time and date.
I disagree. Up to now, I have not been able to bring up any authorization system to work ( PolicyKit, Polkit-0.9, Polkit-Qt, Polkit-Qt-1, ConsoleKit ). May be my fault. In former times, I submitted a "su" and I was able to set time and timezone, as an example. Now, beeing in South America, I had all the time GMT ! _My_ Laptop, island environment, and I had to change time/timezone direct in /etc ! ( you are not allowed to save.....) My real problem is, that I am not at all more sure, what is happening. I had kdm working perfect until I upgraded kdebase-workspace to 4.4.1. kdm did not work anymore. I did not change anything ! Is this a problem of kauth, D-Bus, polkit etc. ? Or did I make a mistake ( if yes, what one ? downgrading kde solves the problem ). Finally, I instalIed SLIM as login-manager. I could not bring NetworkManager to work ! In one of your links I read, that it does not work withouth kauth. So I am using now WICD, and it works smoothly. My Kaddressbook does not work, it does not import data, it does not create new one, nothing. Is something wrong ( KDE is still not ready ), or is this related also to authorization ? Or did I make an error ? I do not know ( comment of some of the KDE developers: if you are not able to build, take a distro ) . There is for sure a big lack of documentation ! I should remark, that I am an experienced builder of Linux systems from the scratch. My KDE-4.4.1 is also working. But I am installing, step by step, the external software I need . I hope, that a future KDE will not ask me for sofisticated authorizations to install external packages. In my company ( a big european one ), we had a very expensive program "customer satisfaction". Ask the customer, what his problem is, and solve it. Dont try to sell anything else ! ( as I was already insulted by one of the developers, I would not be a customer, as I do not pay him, I would like to clarify that a customer in this sense is the one sitting at the other side of the desk, regardless if he pays for the product or not ). After reading a lot of comments in many forums, it seems to me, that nobody really asked for authorization in this form as "conditio sine non quo" . Authorization should be an option, as somebody suggested. > > This apparently authorative article just confused me about what to install > http://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/polkit-and-kde-lets-make-the-point-of > -the-situation/ Glad to hear, that I am not the only one who does not understand it > And I've tried in vain to find documetation which I can understand > anything about polkit. How to configure it??? No Idea. Edgar -- -------------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
