implementing an OLPC authentication agent

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 20:48 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> What about just using polkit-action to override the defaults? E.g.
> 
>  # polkit-action --set-defaults-active \
>      org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users \
>      yes
> 
> You could do this in %post or similar of your installer. See
> 
>  http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/polkit-action.1.html
> 
> for details.

Btw, I should also mention that this (of course) doesn't modify
the .policy files; the overrides are stored in separate files. So you
won't run into any problems on upgrades.

Cheers,
David