[Kubuntu Karmic] In PolicyKit Authorization console can't set rules to device

[Giuseppe Pennisi]

Binary package hint: policykit

In Kubuntu 9.04 with PolicyKit Authorization console I can set the rules to authorize an user to access to disk (mount\umount, automount, read\write, etc..) or other devices.

In Kubuntu Karmic I can't. The rules for disk and other device aren't present.

Is this normal? Why?

[Martin von Wittich (martin.von.wittich)]

The actual problem seems to be that almost all PolicyKit actions seem to have vanished in karmic... I'm not sure though whether this is intentional or a bug. These are the actions that remain:

$ polkit-action
org.freedesktop.policykit.read
org.freedesktop.policykit.revoke
org.freedesktop.policykit.grant
org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults
org.freedesktop.packagekit.cancel-foreign
org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install
org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install-untrusted
org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-trust-signing-key
org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-eula-accept
org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-remove
org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update
org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-rollback
org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-configure
org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh
org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-network-proxy-configure
com.ubuntu.checkbox.test
com.ubuntu.checkbox.info
org.blueman.network.setup
org.blueman.hal.manager
org.blueman.dhcp.client

The GUI shows the same.

[Brownout (brownout)]

Almost anything was migrated to polkit-1, the corresponding tool is pkaction, still no GUI unfortunately.

[Giuseppe Pennisi (giupenni78)]

@Brownout: why this?

[Giuseppe Pennisi (giupenni78)]

How I can use the tool to change the rules?

[Brownout (brownout)]

No idea, right now I'm manually editing config files in /var/lib/polkit-1/
Yes, it sucks, see for example bug 421444, bug 441369 and bug 443265.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Setting Status back to New.