On Tuesday 26 June 2012 17:27:19 you wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Serghei Amelian <serg...@thel.ro> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to create a polkit agent for KDE3, using dbus calls and > > polkit-agent-helper-1. > > Two things: > > 1. Please don't do this - just use libpolkit-agent-1.so instead, it's > much easier and it's better if we are all using the same code. > Especially since this code is security-sensitive and involves > passwords and whatnot. > > 2. polkit-agent-helper-1's interface is *NOT* public - it's a private > implementation detail of libpolkit-agent-1.so. So you can't just use > it in your re-implementation. E.g. its interface *can* and *will* > change as the innards of libpolkit-agent-1.so change. So don't use it > in your re-implementation (feel free to copy-paste it, license > permitting etc.). > > Make no mistake: the only stable interfaces in polkit are the D-Bus > interface and the libpolkit-gobject-1.so library (the > libpolkit-agent-1.so library is still considered unstable). > > I can't force you to follow this advice and you are of course free to > re-implement and re-invent whatever code you want (and occasionally > doing so is a healthy exercise but sometimes it also isn't). But I > just don't have time to support this effort (my time is limited as I'm > working on a lot of other stuff), hope you understand. > > Thanks, > David
Hi David, I expected this response, but i'm trying to do this for several reasons: 1) Qt3 does not support glib event loop natively, so I can't handle signals (at least, not easy). Moreover, my glib knowledge is very limited, which will increase development difficulty and potential security problems. 2) It is a good opportunity to demonstrate how polkit is working using pure dbus calls. I'm guessing dbus was invented to be toolkit agnostic, so I think that this very tight link to glib is against the dbus spirit. I'm aware that polkit-agent-helper-1 is not stable and I'm prepared to make changes in my code when polkit-agent-helper-1 will suffer modifications. Also, there is no reason to worry about security in polkit agent. It just receives a request from polkit daemon, asks the user for password then calls polkit-agent-helper-1 (which I presume that is secure enough). Thanks anyway, I will try to understand polkit sources, maybe I will figure out what i'm missed. -- Serghei _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
