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!

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[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-changi...
>  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 So the method that I posted is no longer valid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)

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Tom H <tomh0665(a)gmail.com&gt; 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-changi...

But it didn't help :(



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[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

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sun, 3/7/10, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  From: Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  Subject: Re: How to install software without root password (PolicyKit?)
>  To: "Fedora Users" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 4:09 AM
>  On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:46 AM,
>  Valent Turkovic
>  <valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  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-in...

Hope this helps in some way :)

Regards,

Antonio

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com&gt; 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?


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