Re: root password prompts

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On Wednesday 26 May 2010 10:41 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2010 05:56 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu
>> Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I believe what the OP is asking is the gui utility that remembers the
>>> authentication after a user enters the root password after the prompt by
>>> a gui dialogue.
>>
>> You're right. I was being stupid!
>>
>
> Happens to all of us from time to time. ;)
>
>>
>>> As far as I know this facility used to be offered by policykit and the
>>> way to set this was to use polkit-gnome-authorization. But that
>>> particular utility has been unavailable since Fedora 12.
>>
>> AFAIK the polkit gui was removed as of F12 and policies are now set up
>> by creating a pkla file in one of the subdirectories of
>> /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority.
>
> I thought the backend has always been the same, even with the polkit gui
> from F11?
>
> It was a very handy way to set things up and control the level of access
> I want to give to a regular user. After extensive searching I have been
> unable to find any proper justification for the removal.
>
> The closest I got was a thread on the desktop-list where the polkit
> developers responded to a query by a Fedora contributor with a, "It has
> been removed, not bringing it back again.". On a subsequent post by
> another contributor complaining about the obscurity of the man page
> explaining how to make the changes by hand (fiddling with the pkla
> files), was responded with a "submit a patch for the man page". I gave
> up on this ever since.
>

The said link, almost exactly as I remembered ... quite sad. :(
<http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx/12934572.html>

> When I have the time I would like to file an RFE on bugzilla about this.
>


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