On Wednesday, 2010-10-13 at 20:26 +0100, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
Actually, this is what PolicyKit was written for - to enable administrators to delegate specific tasks to users without giving them root/sudo privs. Look at the PolicyKit configuration (KDE SC4 System Settings has a module for it) I'm using gnome, so I can't. Any YAST module? Dunno. and see if you can configure it correctly (I'm not sure of the correct incantation for this, but it is definitely possible since that's the whole point of it) such that certain users have full PackageKit permissions. Then, when the update applet wants to update, if you are a sufficiently privileged user, it should only ask for the user password and then just work. The question remains, how to impede the applet that tells there are updates pending to not even start. THAT's the main question. Look at /etc/xdg/autostart/kupdateapplet-autostart.desktop, especially
On 13/10/10 21:36, Carlos E. R. wrote: the X-KDE- bits. To enable for only specific users: 1 - remove that file entirely (though this will get overwritten by kupdateapplet package updates) and copy it back into ~/.config/autostart for only the desired users -- or -- 2 - Add a file in /etc/kde4/share/config/kupdateappletrc with the contents: [General] Autostart=false then modify ~/.kde4/share/config/kupdateappletrc to have "Autostart=true" for only the desired users or, if you want to disable for only specific users In the user's ~/.kde4/share/config/kupdateappletrc, add a key "Autostart=false" to the "[General]" section as above. which BTW is the same behaviour as clicking "Configure Applet" in the kupdateapplet right-click menu and unticking "Automatically start updater on login". Easy! Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org