Comment 3 for bug 1426923
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| Tony Espy (awe) wrote Re: Allow ubuntu-system-settings to set a device's firmware through the private Connectivity API | #3 |
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Thanks for the feedback Jamie!
A couple of comments in return...
1. NetworkManager polkit allows full access to sudo: I assume you meant that the decision was taken *before* we had proper polkit support on the phone?
2. urfkill polkit - allows active seat to call Block: The policy also allows BlockIdx ( ie. by index, whereas Block is by type ), and FlightMode by the active seat. How is this more permissive than needed? I'm not familiar enough with polkit to grok how this could be made more restrictive?
3. Regarding your proposed solution, why is polkit necessary when all non-system processes that run as 'phablet' are confined ( ie. can't make raw DBus calls anyways )?
4. Do you really think that adding polkit support to wpa_supplicant for a single DBus method is more work than creating a new proxy service? Also, I assume the proxy service would handle the polkit logic, and then fwd the call(s)?
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