Ubuntu
policykit-kde package

  1. Bug #578833
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 578833

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Jesse Sweetland (sweetlandj) wrote :

I did some reading up on polkit on the Ubuntu Manpage, and that pointed me to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority and /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority. The only pkla file I could find in either location was /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla. So I edited that file and added the following:

[KPackageKit]
Identity=unix-group:admin
Action=org.freedesktop.packagekit.*
ResultActive=yes

And now KPackageKit doesn't prompt me for a password, but it doesn't wait forever for authentication, either. I don't know if this is the correct solution, but it seems to resolve it temporarily...