Re: HAL issues

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Even specifying the user with <match user="sjoden"> would alloy all users
the same priveledges?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 15:11 -0800, Zack wrote:
> > This will likely fix the problem for you. Put this in
> > /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and restart hal, /etc/rc.d/hal restart.
> >
> > <config version="0.1">
> > <match user="yourusername">
> >     <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
> >         <return result="yes" />
> >     </match>
> >     <match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
> >                 <return result="yes" />
> >         </match>
> >         <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
> >                 <return result="yes" />
> >         </match>
> > </match>
> > </config>
>
> Remember that this configuration inside policykit will allow EACH and
> EVERY user on your system to do these actions, which is wrong.
> There's consolekit for this. Sessions should either be launched via kdm
> or gdm which have native consolekit support, or using ck-launch-session
> when starting from xinitrc. There's also a pam module that can be used,
> but somehow it doesn't always work fine (slim doesn't work with it at
> least).
>
>


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