Re: Gnome Settings Daemon does not start when connecting via VNC

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2008/6/17 Jan Drewnak <drewnak@xxxxxx>:
> The access restrisction problems were caused by -- quite obviously, in retrospect -- PolicyKit. Not having read the PolicyKit documentation in detail, I still wonder why users of VNC sessions are handled different compared to locally logged in by default.

A user logged in at the console has physical access to the machine,
and that brings different security implications to a user logged in
remotely, so it makes sense, if you think long and hard about it, as
the author of policykit has :). If you're interested:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-spec.html

J.

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