Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Do we still want group based permissions for storage and power devices in light of ConsoleKit and Policykit?

2011-05-17 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17-05-2011 00:20, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 05/17/2011 03:15 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: Let's start with generalized example so everyone gets the idea... Reference: man 8 pklocalauthority

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Do we still want group based permissions for storage and power devices in light of ConsoleKit and Policykit?

2011-05-16 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 05/17/2011 03:15 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: Let's start with generalized example so everyone gets the idea... Reference: man 8 pklocalauthority /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/example-udisks.pkla [Local users] Identity=unix-group:plugdev Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.*

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Do we still want group based permissions for storage and power devices in light of ConsoleKit and Policykit?

2011-05-16 Thread Duncan
Samuli Suominen posted on Tue, 17 May 2011 03:20:40 +0300 as excerpted: On 05/17/2011 03:15 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: The above file would grant permission with or without active local ConsoleKit session to users in plugdev group to everything udisks handles. Notice that getting active

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Do we still want group based permissions for storage and power devices in light of ConsoleKit and Policykit?

2011-05-16 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 17 May 2011 03:20:40 +0300 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Futhermore I would like the baselayout package to create the groups decided here, be it wheel (already there), plugdev, or more fine grained storage/power ones. Just my .03 PLN -- I'd like to remind you that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Do we still want group based permissions for storage and power devices in light of ConsoleKit and Policykit?

2011-05-16 Thread Christopher Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:13:15 + (UTC) Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: User perspective... If it's at all possible to continue to have a consolekit/polkit-less system, making them USE-based dependencies of kde, gnome, etc, relying

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Do we still want group based permissions for storage and power devices in light of ConsoleKit and Policykit?

2011-05-16 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: [...] User perspective... For the sake of having a user with a different point of view, let me say that I firmly believe the new *kit daemons (along things like pulseaudio, systemd, GNOME 3, KDE 4) are the future, and Gentoo