On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Tom Gundersen's message of 2011-09-28 20:55:30 +0200: >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher >> <hollunder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit >> > requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble. >> >> Just a quick comment in case someone happens to read this: neither PK >> nor CK should require any configuration at all for most users (at >> least if you use a DE). > > This isn't exactly no configuration: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager#Set_up_PolicyKit_permissions The configuration file shown there is optional. > And it interferes with stuff where it shouldn't, I tried to help a user > getting jack to work, and after I talked him through all the usual stuff > and was out of ideas I told him to try to disable policykit. I don't know why that would happen, clearly a bug somewhere. > I don't want to deal with stuff like that. Fair enough. -t
