Proposed F19 Feature: Usermode Migration

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>> Is it possible to configure utilities with the equivalent of UGROUPS=wheel
>> without per-application javascript policy? Currently, we do this with
>> /etc/security/console.apps/config-util.
>>
>> As I understand it, the javascript policy mechanism is not supposed to be
>> used at the OS vendor level. But I don't see a way to do this in the
>> .policy XML files either.
>
> Yeah, kde-settings does this with JavaScript (for kcm_clock) and I don't
> think we have an easier method available ever since the support for the
> simple .pkla files got dropped.
>
> Maybe, now that this is handled by plugins, we should write a polkit-pkla
> plugin to handle this with the old simple format?

I plan to provide some .pkla compatibility for F19, but I haven't
decided on an implementation method yet.  If anybody would like to
help or has specific requirements/use cases, please contact me.

Thank you,
   Mirek