[packagekit] gpk-update with wheel?

Ken VanDine ken at vandine.org
Wed Jun 25 08:26:53 PDT 2008


I have a patch for PolicyKit that enables wheel for all admin
operations, it is attached.  Hopefully that helps.

Thanks,
--Ken

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 17:18 +0200, Adrien BUSTANY wrote:
> Hi,
> I think you should look at /usr/share/PolicyKit for the packagekit 
> policy files, and check if you can do something with that...
> 
> Cheers
> Adrien
> 
> David Halik a écrit :
> > Hi, I'm just curious if the gnome updater applet can be configured to 
> > use the wheel group for auth in Fedora 9 and thereby not need a root 
> > password. We run a fully integrated LDAP system with sudo, wheel, etc, 
> > and there is no root account. In the past we were able to get around 
> > this by adding "UGROUPS=wheel" to /etc/security/console.apps/<app>, but 
> > I can't seem to find a similar way of doing it with this updater.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >   
> 
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