On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Dan Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:29 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Richard Hughes wrote:
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>> 2009/11/18 Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com>:
>>> Is there some way to disable PackageKit but keep setroubleshoot?
>>
>> Just set all the policykit answers to "no". You'll find more than
just
>> setroubleshoot breaks if you do this.
>
> How do you do this? Set the policykit answers to no?
The atom-bomb approach is to change everything
in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ to <allow_active>no</allow_active> and
<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>.
But that's not right because those files aren't config files. Instead,
you drop "local authority" files in /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/
that override those permissions on a site-by-site basis for your
specific use-case, irregardless of what the defaults are.
To be fair - it took 2 engineers about 30-40 minutes and looking through
the code to figure out what was wanted in those files and then how to
verify what was in there.
it resulted in:
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changi...
but the manpages do not make it obvious. nor is it obvious why those files
are in /var/lib/
-sv