On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 17:03 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > Matthias, is PolicyKit the right place to request a feature such as > > poking firewall holes for avahi (Rhythmbox sharing, etc.)? I seem to > > remember that was one of the targets for this package. Of course, I may > > be misremembering that detail... > > It's not the right place to _implement_ the poking of holes, but > PolicyKit would hopefully be used by the thing that actually poked the > holes to determine if you are authorized to poke holes. It's more of a > "decider" than an actor. The actor asks policy kit if some operation is > authorized, and PolicyKit says "yes/no". Yeah, that's a pretty accurate description. So I actually happen to have a bunch of high-level notes about the whole thing that I will post soon. Just need to sort them out so they sort of make sense. Until then, there's already code in git (with 100% gtk-doc coverage!) that should give a hint or two about how the whole thing works.. http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git Also, I hope to land this pretty early in the Fedora 8 cycle because I've already added support for this thing in HAL and gnome-mount. Anyway, more on this later... David -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
