auth_admin_keep_always discrepancy

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Fri Sep 18 09:45:20 PDT 2009


On Fri Sep 18 16:34:20 +0100 2009 David Zeuthen wrote:
> I don't think either GNOME or KDE is wrong or right here. If I
> understand correctly the KDE authentication dialog for PolicyKit 0.9.x
> simply doesn't allow the user to not retain the authorization? 

No, it apparently defaults to retaining it.

> I'm not sure how this affects authors of Mechanisms either - I mean, if
> the author of a Mechanism decides that auth_self_keep_always is a good
> default (because the action isn't very "dangerous") then it's all good.
> If the action was "dangerous" (such as installing an unsigned package)
> the mechanism author would choose not to allow the user to keep the
> authorization.

Well, I'm perhaps overstating the importance, but without a defined
behaviour for the options it's hard to know which to choose.

Thanks,

James


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