root password prompts
Suvayu Ali
fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Thu May 27 05:41:42 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 26 May 2010 05:56 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I believe what the OP is asking is the gui utility that remembers the
>> authentication after a user enters the root password after the prompt by
>> a gui dialogue.
>
> You're right. I was being stupid!
>
Happens to all of us from time to time. ;)
>
>> As far as I know this facility used to be offered by policykit and the
>> way to set this was to use polkit-gnome-authorization. But that
>> particular utility has been unavailable since Fedora 12.
>
> AFAIK the polkit gui was removed as of F12 and policies are now set up
> by creating a pkla file in one of the subdirectories of
> /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority.
I thought the backend has always been the same, even with the polkit gui
from F11?
It was a very handy way to set things up and control the level of access
I want to give to a regular user. After extensive searching I have been
unable to find any proper justification for the removal.
The closest I got was a thread on the desktop-list where the polkit
developers responded to a query by a Fedora contributor with a, "It has
been removed, not bringing it back again.". On a subsequent post by
another contributor complaining about the obscurity of the man page
explaining how to make the changes by hand (fiddling with the pkla
files), was responded with a "submit a patch for the man page". I gave
up on this ever since.
When I have the time I would like to file an RFE on bugzilla about this.
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Suvayu
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