On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 18:22 -0400, Yclept Nemo wrote: > Polkit contains the > "/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy" actions > file. Is any accompanying mechanism provided as well? > > I am hoping along the lines of: > > /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/* > - a service file that automatically launches the polickit.exec mechanism > /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/* > - a set of methods the client can request over dbus from the mechanism > /etc/dbus-1/system.d > - any user is allowed to make a request > > The client, started as root user, simply listens for dbus requests, > calls polkitd over dbus requesting "pk_authority.CheckAuthorization", > and if authorized, swaps the euid of the client-requested pids.
Hmm, I'm not sure what all this means - but the action described in the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy is for the pkexec(1) mechanism, see http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pkexec.1.html > Well, probably this mechanism doesn't exist, which is why gksu-polkit > was created... What's gksu-polkit? Do you have a link to a description of it? David _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
