(Polkit issue) allowing anyone, or a specific user, to perform actions on Modems

[Enrico Mioso]

Thank you very very much!!!! It does work! :)
As per Polkit, I don't apreciate it very much either, even tough I guess it's, effectively, because of your same reason.

Thank you very very much, really.

Enrico




On Sun, 2 Feb 2020, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 12:50:52
> From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no>
> To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com>
> Cc: modemmanager-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: (Polkit issue) allowing anyone, or a specific user,
>     to perform actions on Modems
> 
> Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> the subjct says it all! Thanks guys!! :)
>
> Don't know if this is sufficient, but I have this file which I believe
> allows any member of the 'netdev' group to manage NM and MM:
>
>
> root at miraculix:/tmp# cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/42-miraculix.pkla
> # $Id: 42-miraculix.pkla,v 1.5 2018/03/22 19:54:49 bjorn Exp $
> #
> # Configuration file for the PolicyKit Local Authority.
> #
> # See the pklocalauthority(8) man page for more information
> # about configuring the Local Authority.
> #
>
> [Network Manager]
> Identity=unix-group:netdev
> Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.*
> ResultAny=yes
> ResultInactive=yes
> ResultActive=yes
>
> [Modem Manager]
> Identity=unix-group:netdev
> Action=org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.*
> ResultAny=yes
> ResultInactive=yes
> ResultActive=yes
>
>
>
>
> Using 'Identity=unix-user:*' instead should allow any user.  In theory.
> But who knows.  To be honest, I hate the polkit complexity.  Probably
> because I have never cared enough to spend the necessary time reading
> all the docs and default policy files etc.  But I wonder: Who does that?
>
>
>
> Bjørn
>