New equivalent to polkit-gnome-authorization

[David Zeuthen]

Hi Vladi,

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 12:39 +0100, Vladimir wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Problem:
> I am using the new Ubuntu 9.10. I read in a bug discussion on
> launchpad that its developers had moved to policykit-1 and therefore
> had abandoned the tool "polkit-gnome-authorization". Though it had
> poor interface it enabled to make some authorizations permanent and
> revoke them later if needed. Now it is dim how to accomplish such
> tasks.
> 
> Questions:
> Are you planning an updated version of this tool?
> If not, can you provide this updated tool as an interim solution,
> until your plan is fully available?

We're not planning on providing a GUI tool. There is, however, a way to
mess around with this through configuration files. See the
pklocalauthority manual page for details and examples.

Hope this helps,
David