Status of Policy Kit

[Doug Goldstein]

Rémi Cardona wrote:
> David Zeuthen a écrit :
>> that are triggered by a session-wide D-Bus service; e.g. applications
>> (like gnome-mount) who are told by e.g. HAL that a certain method cannot
>> be invoked (because HAL says libpolkit doesn't say 'yes') just calls
>> into org.gnome.PolicyKit and the session daemon (possibly activated)
>> handling that service prompt the user for authentication. This is in the
>> PolicyKit-gnome project; it's not yet in GNOME SVN but will be shortly
>> as gnome-mount and other stuff is going to depend on it.
>
> Will there be an "easy" way for us distributors to ship a PolicyKit
> that works pretty much like what HAL in Gentoo does today :
>
>   <policy group="plugdev">
>     <allow
> send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
>     <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
>     <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
>     <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
>   </policy>
>
> Just wondering :)
>
> Regards,
> Rémi
This is already taken care of on Gentoo side. There will be different
action taken by USE flag which will be auto-enabled in desktop profiles.
Gentoo will use PolicyKit and the fall back approach for as long as
that's available.

I'll blog about it sometime on planet.gentoo.org