Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Ludwig Nussel [2008-10-27 10:01]:
> > Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > Vincent Untz wrote:
> > >
> > > > gnome-power-manager has some inhibit mechanisms. This means an
> > > > application can say "don't suspend" (eg, when you're burning a CD). And
> > > > the user can also control this with an applet.
> > >
> > > However, root should be able to control what power he gives the users
> > > over this. Root should be able to disable the ability of users to
> > > power off, reset, or hibernate the computer, or on the contrary, force
> > > an hibernation; and this regardless of what desktop the user is using.
> >
> > # awk '/shutdown|reboot|hibernate|suspend/ {print $1 "  
> > auth_admin_keep_always"}' \
> >     < /etc/polkit-default-privs.standard  >> /etc/polkit-default-privs.local
> > # set_polkit_default_privs 
>
> Is there a good documentation about Policykit that contains such stuff?

The above mechanism is basically a SUSE specific wrapper around polkit-action.
See man polkit-default-privs and man polkit-action.

cu
Ludwig

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