polkit-gnome-authorization missing

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 10/18/2009 02:04 AM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> To help me understand this better, can you give me a example? Let's say
>> I want to tweak PackageKit's policy to not ask for root password even
>> when untrusted packages are being installed, 
> 
> (this is not a good idea but let's ignore that for the time being)

Yeah, just a crazy example since I wanted to do something that I was
pretty sure was not the default.

>> how do I go about doing that?
> 
> Did you look at the EXAMPLES section in the man page Matthias mentioned?
> If it's not clear how to do it after reading that man page, do ask here
> and ideally include a patch to the source for the man page. Thanks.

Yeah, I did look at the man page and was still not clear about a few
things (including how to figure out the list of possible actions
associated with a particular program) but I got the answers I needed
from Matthias Clasen on IRC earlier. Thanks.

For anyone else following along, my current understanding of doing things:

look into /usr/share/polkit-1/actions and grep actions foo.policy for a
list of actions. Then for local changes, edit
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/60-desktop-policy.conf following
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/10-desktop-policy.pkla
(vendor supplied) as an example.


Rahul