Subscribing release team. This will be a new binary package which will need to be seeded to desktop-common. It will contain one file (see below) which will allow common desktop actions without asking for the password if (1) the user is an administrator, and (2) is on a currently active foreground console.
The udisks privs part is currently shipped by the udisks package, but it's not a good fit there: udisks might eventually be used on servers as well, where such default privileges are not appropriate (they weren't shipped in karmic's devicekit-disks yet). Thus this part is not a behavioural change, just a change in packaging for flexibility. The CPU frequency scaling is this bug. It's especially noticeable on laptops where people want to have some manual control over CPU scaling, and currently these auth dialogs make this a nuisance. I also propose to allow changing the time and timezone by default on desktops. But if that is considered evil or questionable by anyone in -release, I'm also happy to back that out for lucid. # cat /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla [Mounting, checking, etc. of internal drives] Identity=unix-group:admin Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-*;org.freedesktop.udisks.change-system-internal ResultActive=yes [Change CPU Frequency scaling] Identity=unix-group:admin Action=org.gnome.cpufreqselector ResultActive=yes [Setting the clock] Identity=unix-group:admin Action=org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.* ResultActive=yes So in summary, I request an FFE for the new binary package, and for adding the two new privileges. ** Description changed: + Please see comment 16 for details of the FFE. + + Binary package hint: gnome-applets This is a regression from Jaunty. It doesn't provide an option for saving the authentication information and requires to enter the password every time a different option is selected. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Oct 19 20:55:20 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gnome-applets 2.28.0-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: - LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 - LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 - PATH=(cususername, user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 + LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 + PATH=(cususername, user) + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: gnome-applets Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 -- FFE: Provide some policykit privileges by default on desktops https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455694 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
