Now that I've learned (?) how to deal with polkit--as documented in another thread--I'd like to get a few more things under my belt. In particular, I'd like to call gparted from the menus in my desktop system. The way it works in Ubuntu is that a message pops up and asks for my password before GParted runs. Right now I get only the message that I need to be root to run it. I found this at the Arch wiki:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC > "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" > "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd";> > <policyconfig> > > <action id="org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted"> > <message>Authentication is required to run the GParted Partition > Editor</message> > <icon_name>gparted</icon_name> > <defaults> > <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> > <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> > <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active> > </defaults> > <annotate > key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/gparted</annotate> > <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate> > </action> > > </policyconfig> This is a polkit action file to be put in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions directory. As written, it would go in that directory with the name "org.archlinux.pkexec.gparted" What I haven't been able to find is the answer to the following question. Does it matter that part of the name would be "org.archlinux" or is this just a name and doesn't refer to anything else on my system. There are only two "org's" in the actions I have now: freedesktop and xorg. Both of those have things installed on my system. If it's just a name, then I don't have to consider anything else. In addition to GParted, I would like to employ this method for the Catalyst Control Center for my ATI-Radeon chip. Thanks, Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
