Re: (Polkit issue) allowing anyone, or a specific user, to perform actions on Modems
Thank you very very much It does work! :) As per Polkit, I don't apreciate it very much either, even tough I guess it's, effectively, because of your same reason. Thank you very very much, really. Enrico On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Bjørn Mork wrote: Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 12:50:52 From: Bjørn Mork To: Enrico Mioso Cc: modemmanager-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: (Polkit issue) allowing anyone, or a specific user, to perform actions on Modems Enrico Mioso writes: the subjct says it all! Thanks guys!! :) Don't know if this is sufficient, but I have this file which I believe allows any member of the 'netdev' group to manage NM and MM: root@miraculix:/tmp# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/42-miraculix.pkla # $Id: 42-miraculix.pkla,v 1.5 2018/03/22 19:54:49 bjorn Exp $ # # Configuration file for the PolicyKit Local Authority. # # See the pklocalauthority(8) man page for more information # about configuring the Local Authority. # [Network Manager] Identity=unix-group:netdev Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes [Modem Manager] Identity=unix-group:netdev Action=org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes Using 'Identity=unix-user:*' instead should allow any user. In theory. But who knows. To be honest, I hate the polkit complexity. Probably because I have never cared enough to spend the necessary time reading all the docs and default policy files etc. But I wonder: Who does that? Bjørn ___ ModemManager-devel mailing list ModemManager-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/modemmanager-devel
Re: (Polkit issue) allowing anyone, or a specific user, to perform actions on Modems
Enrico Mioso writes: > the subjct says it all! Thanks guys!! :) Don't know if this is sufficient, but I have this file which I believe allows any member of the 'netdev' group to manage NM and MM: root@miraculix:/tmp# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/42-miraculix.pkla # $Id: 42-miraculix.pkla,v 1.5 2018/03/22 19:54:49 bjorn Exp $ # # Configuration file for the PolicyKit Local Authority. # # See the pklocalauthority(8) man page for more information # about configuring the Local Authority. # [Network Manager] Identity=unix-group:netdev Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes [Modem Manager] Identity=unix-group:netdev Action=org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes Using 'Identity=unix-user:*' instead should allow any user. In theory. But who knows. To be honest, I hate the polkit complexity. Probably because I have never cared enough to spend the necessary time reading all the docs and default policy files etc. But I wonder: Who does that? Bjørn ___ ModemManager-devel mailing list ModemManager-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/modemmanager-devel
(Polkit issue) allowing anyone, or a specific user, to perform actions on Modems
Hello ! the subjct says it all! Thanks guys!! :) Enrico ___ ModemManager-devel mailing list ModemManager-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/modemmanager-devel
