On Wednesday 26 May 2010 05:56 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I believe what the OP is asking is the gui utility that remembers the >> authentication after a user enters the root password after the prompt by >> a gui dialogue. > > You're right. I was being stupid! > Happens to all of us from time to time. ;) > >> As far as I know this facility used to be offered by policykit and the >> way to set this was to use polkit-gnome-authorization. But that >> particular utility has been unavailable since Fedora 12. > > AFAIK the polkit gui was removed as of F12 and policies are now set up > by creating a pkla file in one of the subdirectories of > /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority. I thought the backend has always been the same, even with the polkit gui from F11? It was a very handy way to set things up and control the level of access I want to give to a regular user. After extensive searching I have been unable to find any proper justification for the removal. The closest I got was a thread on the desktop-list where the polkit developers responded to a query by a Fedora contributor with a, "It has been removed, not bringing it back again.". On a subsequent post by another contributor complaining about the obscurity of the man page explaining how to make the changes by hand (fiddling with the pkla files), was responded with a "submit a patch for the man page". I gave up on this ever since. When I have the time I would like to file an RFE on bugzilla about this. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
