[packagekit] gpk-update with wheel?

David Halik dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
Wed Jun 25 08:31:00 PDT 2008


I appreciate it, thanks.

-Dave

Ken VanDine wrote:
> I have a patch for PolicyKit that enables wheel for all admin
> operations, it is attached.  Hopefully that helps.
>
> Thanks,
> --Ken
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 17:18 +0200, Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I think you should look at /usr/share/PolicyKit for the packagekit 
>> policy files, and check if you can do something with that...
>>
>> Cheers
>> Adrien
>>
>> David Halik a écrit :
>>     
>>> Hi, I'm just curious if the gnome updater applet can be configured to 
>>> use the wheel group for auth in Fedora 9 and thereby not need a root 
>>> password. We run a fully integrated LDAP system with sudo, wheel, etc, 
>>> and there is no root account. In the past we were able to get around 
>>> this by adding "UGROUPS=wheel" to /etc/security/console.apps/<app>, but 
>>> I can't seem to find a similar way of doing it with this updater.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
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