Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2803 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 20:04:26 Adam Sailer wrote:
> openSUSE 11 -
>
> The packagekit applet keeps failing with "Failed to update system:
> Authorisation could not be obtained" (and yes, authorization is spelled
> with an 's' in the dialogue).

As it should be :)

> The applet is no longer asking for a
> password, it is just failing.
>
> Any ideas?

You need to configure PolicyKit. e.g. in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf, to 
allow everything for user foo

<config version="0.1">
  <match user="foo">
    <return result="yes" />
  </match>
</config>

Anders
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