On 2012-12-31 20:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 06:16:40PM -0000, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: >> Seems like it says "no, but you can authenticate by providing the >> credentials for an admin user". And that's not what we want to >> know, is it? > > Yes, it is. That's how polkit works
Let's not forget the context, please. language-selector contains some buttons for accomplishing tasks that only admin users are allowed to do. Those buttons are greyed out for non-admin users. It seems to me that polkit is not designed to provide the info necessary to distinguish beforehand between admin and non-admin users. I suppose you agree that the answer "no, but you can authenticate by providing the credentials for an admin user" isn't useful for that purpose. If you don't, I may be missing something. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008344 Title: checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1008344/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
