On Thu 11-05-17 23:07:55, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2017-01-05 10:23:07, Michal Hocko wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just learned that my Xfce Power Manager cannot manipulate > > brightness because I do not have policykit installed on my computer. > > There is a reason for that (yeah it depends on systemd which I prefer > > not have). > > > > While this is clearly a problem of the Xfce applet I am wondering why > > setting the brightness has to be a privileged operation at all. Is there > > any strong reason for it or just a general policy that we do not give > > world writable files into sysfs? > > Well, if you have another user logged in using ssh, and changing _your_ > brightness, that will be somehow annoying, right? I am pretty sure that such a user can do much larger harm than playing with brigtness of my LCD. Anyway I went with my own rc.local hack. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
