On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 19:45 +0100, shrek-m@gmx.de wrote:
i was playing with $ polkit-gnome-authorization
i added one user and blocked an other, now none can edit the "org.pulseaudio high-priority-scheduling" because it crashes.
That is simply a bug. I gave David a fix for it; I hope he manages to push out a fixed build soon. In the meantime, you can use polkit-auth --revoke to remove the explicit grants that are causing the problem.
root (local X) can not edit the policies a tool for sysadmins but root can not use it ?
What is the problem with using it as root (apart from the aforementioned bug) ?
one more tool for a sysadmin to check and to manage ?
How much checking and managing you want to do depends on your personal preferences. At least there is a tool, which is more than consolehelper ever achieved...
a user can not edit via ssh X11forwarding ?
Should work, what problem are you seeing ?
no possibilty to disable it like selinux ?
What do you mean by that ? Blindly allowing every privileged operation for everybody ? Or denying it for everybody ?