Gksu in 14.04?

[Tom H]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What needs to be done to fix this issue?
>
> Per the documentation aforementioned:
>
> "As a result, pkexec will not allow you to run X11 applications as
> another user since the $DISPLAY and $XAUTHORITY environment variables
> are not set. These two variables will be retained if the
> org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui annotation on an action is
> set to a nonempty value; this is discouraged, though, and should only
> be used for legacy programs."

Interesting, thanks.

On 14.04:

# grep allow_gui /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/*
com.canonical.xdiagnose.policy:    <annotate
key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
com.ubuntu.apport.policy:    <annotate
key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
com.ubuntu.release-upgrader.policy:    <annotate
key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
com.ubuntu.release-upgrader.policy:    <annotate
key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
com.ubuntu.update-notifier.policy:    <annotate
key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
org.debian.pkexec.gnome-system-log.policy:    <annotate
key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">TRUE</annotate>
org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.run-plainbox-job.policy:    <annotate
key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">TRUE</annotate>

So it's being used by Ubuntu.

Looking at "org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.gnome-system-log.policy",
I created "/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.{gedit,nautilus}.policy"
but they didn't work.

The pk function's better; but there must be a way using the polkit config files!