Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, November 20, 2011 06:38:21 PM Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 20 November 2011 18:27:57 Will Stephenson wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 Nov 2011 17:18:33 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > > So it looks to my untrained eye as it should not work
> >
> > I suppose we need Ludwig to tell us how else it can be configured.
> >
> > > I was messing around a long time ago with the kde4 policykit
> > > settings
> > > module in systemsettings. Maybe this made me "always admin"?
> >
> > Could be, but unlikely, as these permissions were only added in 12.1.
> > Unless they inherit and you added a "org.freedesktop.* yes" type
> > permisson. You'd have to look and see.  I don't know how to check any
> > local overrides added using the polkit API using gnome or the command
> > line though.
> Through config files in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d you can
> effectively make any user admin as far as PolicyKit is concerned. If you
> then are logged in as that user, you won't be asked to authenticate further
>
> Anders
That sounds appealing to my use-case. How do I go about doing that? Frankly, I 
would like if it asked me for authentication a whole lot less since I am the 
only one that uses my machines... and I always set up an account if I have a 
guest.
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