augeas, dbus and policykit

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 08:19 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Because augeas ( http://augeas.net ) enables us to read/modify/write config files easily, I envision a dbus 
> service which provides the augeas interface filtered by config files and checks access with policykit.
> 
> That means, if you want to modify e.g. /etc/grub.conf, you first acquire the action_id 
> "com.redhat.conf.grub.write" and then talk to the "com.redhat.conf.grub.Mechanism". This can be done easily 
> already. In fact, 
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=system-config-boot.git;a=tree;h=experimental;hb=experimental does this.
> 
> What I thought of, is a generic mechanism for _all_ config files with generated action ids. Is this possible? 
> Can action ids be generated on the fly, or does every action_id have to be specified in a policy file?
> 
> ru
> Harald

Hey Harald, not sure what you are asking.  It may have nothing to do
with D-Bus.  action_id's are not a part of D-Bus.  If it is a PolicyKit
thing then you should post to the PolicyKit mailing list.  Talk to David
Zeuthen.  

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>