On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 13:07, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > 2009/10/23 Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com>: >> Working on the OLPC XS rebase to F11 -- I end up with random bits of >> gnome and kde, brought in by PolicyKit, which wants a >> PolicyKit-authentication-agent. >> >> Yum only seems to know of KDE and Gnome authentication-agents. >> >> How does PK handle users logging in in a VT? What is the >> authentication agent there? > > The authentication agent is used only when a specific application > requests an operation which the local authority has marked as > requiring authorization. It is not used when logging in. I don't know > of any command line applications that make policykit requests, and I > don't know of any commandline authentication agents.
pkcon is a command line tool to install/update/remove packages with PackageKit. It uses PolicyKit, and thus might use some authentication agent. No idea how it does that though. ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
