Application authorisations

David Zeuthen zeuthen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 16:53:07 PDT 2010


Hey,

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
>> Sure, polkit could definitely introduce auth_ack{,_keep} in addition
>> to the existing auth_self and auth_admin. It would just show [allow]
>> and [deny] buttons instead of challenging the user. Btw, there is
>> already a fine mechanism (the PolkitBackendActionLookup extension
>> point) in place for you to customize the message so it the dialog
>> would be
>>
>>  The application XYZ wants to access your location.
>>
>> where XYZ could be Firefox or Epiphany or Empathy or whatever.
>
> That would be nice. Should I file a bug?

Sounds good to me, please do (at b.fd.o).

     David


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