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Date:      Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:03:07 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Gustau =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= <gperez@entel.upc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with auth in policykit-gnome
Message-ID:  <1246734187.1299.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A4B0E46.8040600@entel.upc.edu>
References:  <4A4B0E46.8040600@entel.upc.edu>

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On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:20 +0200, Gustau P=E9rez wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
>   I'm having troubles using policykit-gnome. My system is a clean 7.2
> STABLE, all ports removed and recompiled clean. If I log as
> a normal user if I try to change some actions doesn't bring me the
> auth dialog. If I log as root, I can change everything. If I
>  remember well I thing the same happened with CURRENT, but can't
> confirm it right now.
>=20
>    I checked 'policykit -> Modify defaults for implicit
> authorization', which gave me 'Admin Authentication' (the default value).
>=20
>    My ${LOCALBASE}/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf allows root to do
> anything and defines an admin group. If I add a user
>  and allow him to do anything, then it works. So that made me think
> policyit-gnome was to blame.
>=20
>    Anyone can confirm this behaviour ? In case someone does, I have a
> patch for the port (based on a patch in ubuntu) which seems
>  to fix the problem I can send a pr with the patch If anyone confirms
> this.

Are you sure /proc is mounted?  This is required for PK to work
properly.

Joe

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