PolicyKit dependency chain for headless machines

[Martin Langhoff]

Working on the OLPC XS rebase to F11 -- I end up with random bits of
gnome and kde, brought in by PolicyKit, which wants a
PolicyKit-authentication-agent.

Yum only seems to know of KDE and Gnome authentication-agents.

How does PK handle users logging in in a VT? What is the
authentication agent there?

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[Daniel Drake]

2009/10/23 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  Working on the OLPC XS rebase to F11 -- I end up with random bits of
>  gnome and kde, brought in by PolicyKit, which wants a
>  PolicyKit-authentication-agent.
>
>  Yum only seems to know of KDE and Gnome authentication-agents.
>
>  How does PK handle users logging in in a VT? What is the
>  authentication agent there? 
The authentication agent is used only when a specific application
requests an operation which the local authority has marked as
requiring authorization. It is not used when logging in. I don't know
of any command line applications that make policykit requests, and I
don't know of any commandline authentication agents.

Daniel

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 13:07, Daniel Drake <dsd(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:
>  2009/10/23 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com&gt;:
> > Working on the OLPC XS rebase to F11 -- I end up with random bits of
> > gnome and kde, brought in by PolicyKit, which wants a
> > PolicyKit-authentication-agent.
> >
> > Yum only seems to know of KDE and Gnome authentication-agents.
> >
> > How does PK handle users logging in in a VT? What is the
> > authentication agent there?
>
>  The authentication agent is used only when a specific application
>  requests an operation which the local authority has marked as
>  requiring authorization. It is not used when logging in. I don't know
>  of any command line applications that make policykit requests, and I
>  don't know of any commandline authentication agents. 
pkcon is a command line tool to install/update/remove packages with
PackageKit. It uses PolicyKit, and thus might use some authentication
agent.

No idea how it does that though.


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)