Debian Bug report logs -
#504450
policykit: Not obvious how to configure PolicyKit in a passwordless manner
Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 23:33:06 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in versions policykit/0.9-1, policykit/0.9-3
Fixed in version 0.9-4+rm
Done: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Bug#504450; Package policykit.
(Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:33:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Message #3 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: policykit
Version: 0.9-1
Severity: normal
(I don't know whether this bug lies with policykit, policykit-gnome,
or both. Please reassign as appropriate.)
I have my system configured with sudo, using NOPASSWD. I also
configured gksu to use sudo, so it doesn't prompt for a password; it
only pops up a notification message.
However, I don't see how to configure PolicyKit in the same way. I
want to configure it to give specific users or groups blanket
permission to do anything, without entering a password, though ideally
with a confirmation dialog first.
Ideally I'd like to see PolicyKit configured that way by default for a
designated group, so that I can simply add a user to that group.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages policykit depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii consolekit 0.2.10-2 framework for defining and trackin
ii dbus 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-4+b1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-1 library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii libpolkit-grant2 0.9-1 library for obtaining privileges v
ii libpolkit2 0.9-1 library for accessing PolicyKit
Versions of packages policykit recommends:
ii policykit-gnome 0.9-1 GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
policykit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Information forwarded
to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, josh@freedesktop.org, Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#504450; Package policykit.
(Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Message #6 received at 504450@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: policykit
Version: 0.9-1
Followup-For: Bug #504450
I figured out that I can set up /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf to give
blanket permission to specific users. However, this does not let me
give permission to a group, nor does it provide a confirmation dialog.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages policykit depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii consolekit 0.2.10-2 framework for defining and trackin
ii dbus 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-4+b1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-1 library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii libpolkit-grant2 0.9-1 library for obtaining privileges v
ii libpolkit2 0.9-1 library for accessing PolicyKit
Versions of packages policykit recommends:
ii policykit-gnome 0.9-1 GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
policykit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Information forwarded
to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, dieguito@gmail.com, Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>:
Bug#504450; Package policykit.
(Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:36:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Acknowledgement sent
to Diego Escalante Urrelo <dieguito@gmail.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to dieguito@gmail.com, Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>.
(Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:36:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Message #11 received at 504450@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: policykit
Version: 0.9-3
Severity: normal
You can also add <define_admin_auth group="adm"/> to the config file and so any
user in the adm group will be allowed to auth with their own password.
I think this is what Ubuntu does, but must confirm.
The package should detect if root is enabled before installing and in
consecuence add such option, I understand 'adm' group is for people somehow
trusted.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages policykit depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii consolekit 0.3.0-2 framework for defining and trackin
ii dbus 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpolkit-dbus2 0.9-3 library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii libpolkit-grant2 0.9-3 library for obtaining privileges v
ii libpolkit2 0.9-3 library for accessing PolicyKit
policykit recommends no packages.
Versions of packages policykit suggests:
ii policykit-gnome 0.9.2-1 GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
-- no debconf information
Changed Bug submitter from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>.
Request was from Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
to control@bugs.debian.org.
(Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:55:37 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Reply sent
to Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility.
(Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:33:12 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Notification sent
to Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer.
(Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:33:12 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Message #18 received at 504450-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Version: 0.9-4+rm
The policykit source package has been removed from Debian before the
release of squeeze, for details see http://bugs.debian.org/580270
I'm now closing the remaining bug reports.
Andreas
Bug archived.
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