Karmic PolicyKit-1, grant access to user

[NoOp]

On 11/10/2009 07:02 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> 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
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Getting closer:
> 
> I found the appropriate documentaion here:
> 
> http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pklocalauthority.8.html
> 
> And can now control such things as power suspend and hibernate.
> 
> However, I can not find how Ubuntu now configures device access.   This
> used to be done by the old policykit, but can not find any polikit-1
> "action" that would give me direct access to devices.  However, if I
> getfacl devices like sr0 and audio, something is granting rw to the user
> of the active console.  Any suggestions as to where to look for this
> configuration would be welcome.

None of the following is to imply that I have any clue about policykit-1
(yet) :-)

$ sudo apt-get install policykit-1-doc

These also might be of help/interest:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/448192
[note comment 6]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/448810
[note comments 8 & 12]
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1308528

/usr/share/polkit-1/actions seems to be the key, but I reckon will take
some time to figure out until a gui like the old policykit-gnome comes
along.

$ pkaction will list registered PolicyKit actions (see man pkaction).