GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 652128
add a set of working polkit policies
Last modified: 2011-09-19 15:22:07 UTC
right now the situation is like this. vanilla gnome doesn't work in the way was supposed to be. accountsservice/user panel has two types, standard and administrator but the later is not taken in consideration when using vanilla polkit. When an administrator password is needed, it will accept only root right now. fedora already has some sane rules http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=polkit.git;a=blob;f=polkit.spec;h=24a85b221c3f34694cff0fde85c8bd1b9385db23;hb=HEAD#l101 it will be nice to have working policies straight in g-c-c where all the lock buttons are and in the end it will improve the desktop usability in vanilla gnome
Sorry, but this bug report is a mess. First, this really has nothing to do the control-center - all that the c-c does is to change the account type. Toggling the account type is implemented in the accountservice project, see http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/ which implements this by just toggling membership in the 'wheel' group. And as you can see this has nothing to do with polkit since e.g. sudo(8) is also affected by it. FYI, the "Wheel Group Permissions" currently shipped with Fedora will probably go into polkit proper soon.
well, the logic behind reporting this feature request was that in control-center are all the actions that requires that specific polkit rule. also last time when we talk on irc you said that distributions polkit rules doesn't belong in upstream polkit.
Filed as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41008 - hoping to get a new release out with this this week.