How to install software without root password (PolicyKit?)

[Valent Turkovic]

Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of packages without
users needing to enter root password. How do I enable this feature via
PolicyKit?

Cheers!

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Valent Turkovic
 wrote:
> Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of packages without
> users needing to enter root password. How do I enable this feature via
> PolicyKit?
>
> Cheers!

Is this a question for developers list if nobody here know how to do that?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sun, 3/7/10, Valent Turkovic  wrote:
> From: Valent Turkovic 
> Subject: Re: How to install software without root password (PolicyKit?)
> To: "Fedora Users" 
> Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 4:09 AM
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:46 AM,
> Valent Turkovic
>
> wrote:
> > Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of
>
> packages without
> > users needing to enter root password. How do I enable
>
> this feature via
> > PolicyKit?
> >
> > Cheers!
>
> Is this a question for developers list if nobody here know
> how to do that?
>
> --

Maybe?, or the other questions on the list are more INTERESTING than this one?

I remember reading about it a while ago and I believe a BZ was filed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/fedora-12-updates-package-inst....

Hope this helps in some way :)

Regards,

Antonio

[Tom H]

> > Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of packages without
> > users needing to enter root password. How do I enable this feature via
> Is this a question for developers list if nobody here know how to do that?

This was the default when F12 was released and I reversed it with
pklalockdown –lockdown org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install
so you can probably re-enable it with
pklalockdown something

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Tom H  wrote:
> > > Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of packages without
> > > users needing to enter root password. How do I enable this feature via
> > Is this a question for developers list if nobody here know how to do that?
>
> This was the default when F12 was released and I reversed it with
> pklalockdown –lockdown org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install
> so you can probably re-enable it with
> pklalockdown something

I even found this article:
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changing-...

But it didn't help :(

[Tom H]

> > > > Fedora 12 should was planned to have installation of packages without
> > > > users needing to enter root password. How do I enable this feature via
> > > Is this a question for developers list if nobody here know how to do that?
> > This was the default when F12 was released and I reversed it with
> > pklalockdown –lockdown org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install
> > so you can probably re-enable it with
> > pklalockdown something
> I even found this article:
> http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/polkit-and-package-kit-and-changing-...
> But it didn't help :(

Thanks for the link. So the method that I posted is no longer valid
according to DavidZ (who seems to be one of the polkit developers)...

Did you create
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-pkgkit-pkginstall-policy.pkla
with
[Only Let Admins Install Packages]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

This looks to me like the right invocation.

If the above does not work, you might want to create
10-pkgkit-pkginstall-policy.pkla
in
/etc/polkit-1/90-mandatory.d
to ensure that it is not over-ridden by another polkit policy (or
whatever these things are called)