Hello,
Should we enable PolicyKit support with gnome-applets? I just checked it, and what it does, is to allow the user to change CPU Frequency Scaling as per the PK-file below.
Thanks, Magnus
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1.0/policyconfig.dtd%22%3E
<policyconfig>
<vendor>The GNOME Project</vendor> <vendor_url>http://www.gnome.org/</vendor_url> <icon_name>gnome-cpu-frequency-applet</icon_name>
<action id="org.gnome.cpufreqselector"> <_description>Change CPU Frequency scaling</_description> <_message>Privileges are required to change the CPU Frequency scaling.</_message> <defaults> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep_always</allow_active> </defaults> </action>
</policyconfig>
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 17:34 +0800, Magnus Boman wrote:
Hello,
Should we enable PolicyKit support with gnome-applets? I just checked it, and what it does, is to allow the user to change CPU Frequency Scaling as per the PK-file below.
Yes, but file a bug for the security team to audit it (or maybe its using the same bits as power management?
-JP