polkit 0.91

[Robby Workman]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:29:59 -0500
David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk> wrote:

> Here we go again with a new PolicyKit release
> 
>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-0.91/
>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit-0.91/docs/
> 
> Lots of bug fixes and new features this release; major highlights
> 
>  - parallel builds should work
>  - plug-in architecture landed
>  - a null backend
>  - authentication agent helper library completely reworked
>  - almost 100% doc coverage; including docs for the D-Bus interfaces
>  - configuration file to control what administrator authentication
>    means,
> see /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf for
> details
> 
> The next release will focus on porting the remaining bits of
> PolicyKit-gnome (which will probably mean changes to the Authority
> structure and the AuthorityManager D-Bus interface) and factoring out
> some general utilities from the local authority backend (the FreeIPA
> people have requested this).
> 
> There's still a few rough edges; same disclaimers as for 0.90 applies.
> 


Better :-) ...but still needing pam, even though shadow backend is at
least somewhat present now.

See inlined attachment...

-RW


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