Application authorisations

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Fri Apr 30 03:06:57 PDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 19:53 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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).

Done:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27908

Cheers



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