Does policy kit support group-based authorization

[Creative Innovative]

Hello David,

I am interested in adding support for group-based authorization in Policy Kit.

I am looking at a version of Policy Kit code, that is almost 1 year old.
commit 2aa16b5ea71db4912d7cb01415b6733178be3729
Author: David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 22 12:43:28 2008 -0400

I quickly browsed your latest changes at 
Here's PolicyKit 0.92, PolicyKit-gnome 0.92 and eggdbus 0.4
 
Can you please let me know, if latest changes part of PolicyKit 0.92 provides support for group-based authorization through Policy Kit.

Thanks,

SK.




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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:00:24 -0400
From: David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>
Subject: polkit 0.92
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Hi,

Here's PolicyKit 0.92, PolicyKit-gnome 0.92 and eggdbus 0.4

 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-0.92.tar.gz
 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-gnome-0.92.tar.bz2
 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/eggdbus-0.4.tar.gz

Thanks,
David

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PolicyKit 0.92
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This is PolicyKit 0.92.

WARNING WARNING WARNING: This is a prerelease on the road to PolicyKit
1.0. Public API might change and certain parts of the code still needs
some security review. Use at your own risk.

Build requirements

 glib, gobject, gio >= 2.14
 eggdbus-1          >= 0.4
 pam

Changes since PolicyKit 0.91:

 David Zeuthen (36):
      post-release version bump to 0.92
      install gtkdoc HTML in the proper location
      Fix D-Bus policy to work with non-permissive D-Bus
      Only allow privileged apps to check authz and add ActionLookup interface
      Change the PolkitAuthorizationResult enumeration into an object
      Port examples and command-line tools to new API
      Move docs to proper location
      Add a pkexec(1) command
      Mention /usr/bin/pkexec in the configure blurb
      Fix a bug where details were not shown for normal pkexec usage
      Use an object, not a GHashTable when passing details around
      Forgot to add source for PolkitDetails
      Change the defaults for .run-frobnicate to auth_self_keep
      Require eggdbus-1 >= 0.4
      Only free hash table if it's not NULL
      Avoid returning an error if no authentication agent is available
      Clarify docs for is_challenge member of the AuthorizationResult struct
      Add pkcheck(1) command to check for authorizations
      nullbackend: Catch up with latest API changes
      Return the icon name instead of a GIcon in PolkitActionDescription
      Add pkaction(1) and nuke polkit-1(1) commands
      Update SEE ALSO sections in man pages
      Add a man page for polkit-1(8)
      First cut at some high-level docs
      Improve pkexec(1) man page by adding screenshots of authentication dialogs
      Add some more API docs
      Add a "PolicyKit Overview" section to the docs
      Consolidate all gtk-doc stuff in docs/polkit
      Expand on the D-Bus docs
      Use .../extensions instead of ../backends for loading extensions
      Minor doc fixes
      Move the doc chapters around a bit
      Change GNOME to freedesktop.org in the docs
      Fix make distcheck
      Update NEWS
      Also dist polkitd-1.xml

 Richard Hughes (2):
      fix up gtk-doc API markup for a couple of functions
      add a draft version of the porting guide -- WIP

David Zeuthen,
June 8, 2009

==========
polkit-gnome 0.92
==========

This is PolicyKit-gnome version 0.92.

Build requirements

 PolicyKit >= 0.92
 gtk+-2.0  >= 2.14

Changes since 0.91:

 David Zeuthen (9):
      post release version bump to 0.92
      Update for changes in PolicyKit API
      Catch up with latest polkit API changes
      Handle non-standard PAM stacks like fprintd
      Bug 541945 ? Parse gecos field (i.e. don't show username commas)
      Change license to LGPLv2
      Do not depend on EggDBus
      Rip out stuff no longer needed for PolicyKit 1.0
      Update NEWS

David Zeuthen,
June 8, 2009




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