PolicyKit 0.3

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 19:36 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:15:49AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Right now it doesn't do a lot; it's a library after all. There is
> > however, a small demo in the GNOME tarball; here's a screenshot
> >  http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/PolicyKit-0.3.png
> 
>   "user to authenticate", "system administrator to authenticate"... How
> this will work with "root-less" distributions, like Ubuntu?

Read the original mail again, it's on the TODO list:

>  - Have support for systems that don't use the root account; e.g.
>    instead of authenticating as root, authenticate any user in
>    e.g. the 'wheel' group. Probably means we need a combobox in the UI
>    bits (e.g. PolicyKit-gnome + friends) for selecting the user to
>    auth as.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>