[Bug 847937] New: System Policies prevent get the Brightness Level
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937#c0 Summary: System Policies prevent get the Brightness Level Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: RC 1 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SUSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Usability AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: amon0.thoth1.@gmail.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=565213) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=565213) System Policies on Brightness level User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 On KDE4, Whenever your system uses Secure option on File Permissions "system policies prevent you from getting the brightness level" dialog will appear requesting root privileges to perform actions on brightness level. It does not looks quite useful requesting root privileges to perform a Display Brightness Level adjustments for daily user operations. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure your system to use Secure File Permissions 2.Activate Power settings on Dim Screen after "n" minutes. * 3.Another way to replicate it is using keys to change the Screen Brightness.* Actual Results: 2) * At the time is reached or 3) * Switching keys to adjust the Screen Brightness Level It will show a dialog "system policies prevent you from getting the brightness level" and it will request you enter "root" password to perform the actions. Expected Results: It does Not looks quite useful requesting root privileges to perform a Display Brightness Level adjustments for any daily user operations. I fail to envision a potential risk by permitting a user to make Screen Brightness Level adjustments.So it should be easily available for all users. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937#c1 Hrvoje Senjan <hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |security-team@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | --- Comment #1 from Hrvoje Senjan <hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com> 2013-10-28 18:13:59 UTC --- Assigning to security team -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937#c1 Hrvoje Senjan <hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |security-team@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |meissner@suse.com Summary|System Policies prevent get |AUDIT-0: System Policies |the Brightness Level |prevent get the Brightness | |Level --- Comment #1 from Hrvoje Senjan <hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com> 2013-10-28 18:13:59 UTC --- Assigning to security team --- Comment #2 from Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.com> 2013-11-14 04:05:18 UTC --- Tagging this for evaluation. might be from # kde backlight helper (bnc#672145) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937#c1 Hrvoje Senjan <hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |security-team@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |meissner@suse.com Summary|System Policies prevent get |AUDIT-0: System Policies |the Brightness Level |prevent get the Brightness | |Level --- Comment #1 from Hrvoje Senjan <hrvoje.senjan@gmail.com> 2013-10-28 18:13:59 UTC --- Assigning to security team --- Comment #2 from Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.com> 2013-11-14 04:05:18 UTC --- Tagging this for evaluation. might be from # kde backlight helper (bnc#672145) --- Comment #3 from Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.com> 2013-11-18 13:04:41 UTC --- But the action should be granted: $ pkaction -v --action-id org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper.setbrightness org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper.setbrightness: description: Set brightness message: System policies prevent you from setting the brightness level. vendor: KDE vendor_url: icon: kde implicit any: no implicit inactive: no implicit active: yes maybe something that the session is not 'active'? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937#c5 --- Comment #5 from Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.com> 2013-11-18 13:08:30 UTC --- Ah. So, this is for the standart polkit rules. The restrictive ruleset requires auth_admin. Thats why its restrictive, so its OK, no? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937#c7 Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low --- Comment #7 from Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.de> 2013-11-18 23:00:11 UTC --- bugbot adjusting priority -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847937#c7 Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Ricardo CHUNG <amon0.thoth1.@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |amon0.thoth1.@gmail.com --- Comment #7 from Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.de> 2013-11-18 23:00:11 UTC --- bugbot adjusting priority -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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