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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #59946
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 59946

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: [Bug 59946] Re: run action as root without prompting for a password

Le mercredi 27 septembre 2006 à 08:06 +0000, Matt Zimmerman a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:42:24AM -0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > Matt, I'm not sure it can't be configured differently before starting
> > using policykit which will not happen for edgy. Is that an issue for
> > edgy?
>
> I'm not familiar with policykit; can you explain the issue?

The issue is not policykit. The new gnome-system-tools communicates with
the daemon over dbus, the permissions granting is done by a dbus policy.
My understanding is that dbus doesn't allow better granularity than
group membership for that at the moment, policykit is supposed to fix
that.