authentication issues in system settings

[Claude Jones]

On 10/19/2010 3:33 PM, James Kerr wrote:
> My understanding is that polkit is now supposed to take care of
> escalating privileges when required in systemsettings. I no longer use
> KDE, but in earlier versions, I ran systemsettings as root when I wanted
> to use the modules that required Administrator authorisation.

thank you - I did start doing what you report just yesterday - it's a 
useful workaround

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA