Hello, some other distros use a Polkit rule, that makes the local admin group ("wheel" on Guix) Polkit admins. Yet others easily allow writing your own files to /etc, so that such a rule can be added. Guix lacks such a rule by default and adding it in the way you're supposed to in other distros is not very guixy.
Since our polkit service expects a list of packages as extension, I currently use the following in my /etc/config.scm: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (define polkit-wheel (package (name "polkit-wheel") (version "0") (source #f) (build-system trivial-build-system) (arguments `(#:modules ((guix build utils)) #:builder (begin (use-modules ((guix build utils))) (let ((rules.d (string-append %output "/share/polkit- 1/rules.d"))) (mkdir-p rules.d) (with-output-to-file (string-append rules.d "/wheel.rules") (lambda () (display "polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) { return [\"unix-group:wheel\"]; }); "))))))) (home-page #f) (synopsis "Make wheel adminstrate") (description #f) (license #f))) (define polkit-wheel-service-type (service-type (name 'polkit-wheel) (extensions (list (service-extension polkit-service-type (const (list polkit- wheel))))) (default-value '()))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The problems with this apporach should be clear. "polkit-wheel" is by no stretch of the imagination an actual package. It is so trivial, that it might as well just be a file. Is there a simpler way of extending polkit, perhaps with just a g-expression? Regards, Leo