Karmic PolicyKit-1, grant access to user

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 10 03:24:38 UTC 2009


On 11/09/2009 06:30 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> As I discussed earlier in my rant thread, PolicyKit has been replaced
> with PolicyKit-1, but there is now no gui to configure any of the policies.
> 
> It was easy enough to find the /usr/share/polikit-1 folder and I can
> modify the entries there to change the deault policies to my heart's
> content, but I can't figure out how grant access to a specific user.
> 
> For a real world example, suppose I want to give my primary user
> permission to use sound devices, whether or not I'm currently the active
> console user.  (This is something I did in Jaunty so music would keep on
> playing even though I'm logging in to another system remotely on a
> second x session.)
> 
> I can't even find in what file that setting is stored in the old
> policykit, let alone how to transfer it to policykit-1
> 
> 

See the "Yup, Karmic is somewhat of a disaster" thread?

$ sudo apt-get install policykit-gnome
$ sudo update-menus
System|Administration|Authorizations






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