Re: authentication issues in system settings

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On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:36 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:

> There's been much noise about this simple request of mine, but not much 
> useful comment or help - does anyone know how the systemsettings program 
> determines which settings GUIs need to be run in root mode and how the 
> prompt to enter the root password is invoked?
> 
>  

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.

Jim



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