Hi, It's come to my attention that there seems to be a discrepancy in the meaning of auth_admin_keep_always between the GNOME and KDE agents (old polkit).
GNOME seems to treat it as "allow the user to choose to store the authorization for ever", whereas KDE seems to treat it as "default to storing the authorization for ever", which introduces serious difficulty in choosing which to use. Similar discrepancies seem to occur for keep_session and the non-admin cases. http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf.5.html states: auth_admin_keep_always Access denied, but authentication of the caller as an administrative user will grant access any caller with the given uid in the future. which isn't entirely clear. The agents should unify on this (though this version of polkit is almost deprecated), so which interpretation is correct? Is there a similar ambiguity in polkit-1? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
