On Fri 2017-05-12 08:20:04, Michal Hocko wrote: > 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. Can he? Those are bugs to be fixed. We don't want them in kernel... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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