On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Chris Masone <cmas...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hi, folks. I've written some custom DBus services, and I'd like to use > PolicyKit to control who's allowed to send messages to them. I see that > there's this notion of default behavior for "any", "active" sessions and > "inactive" sessions, but I have a few questions about the semantics here: > 1) What constitutes an "active" session? "inactive"?
This is touched upon in the ConsoleKit documentation here: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/ConsoleKit/doc/ConsoleKit.html Admittely, you have to read a bit between the lines to find out that a session is active if it controls the hardware associated with the Seat it is associated with. In other words, it a session on the current vt is active, while a session on a different vt is inactive (think user-switching). > 2) what do the following acceptable values mean? > auth_self_one_shot > auth_self > auth_self_keep_session > auth_self_keep_always > auth_admin_one_shot > auth_admin > auth_admin_keep_session > auth_admin_keep_always > I looked at the reference manual online, and no explanation was really > provided. Where can I go to figure these things out? For these, you want to refer to the polkit(8) manual page, e.g here: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/polkit.8.html _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
