On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:10:37 luis jure wrote: > on 2011-02-27 at 11:32 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > >If it involved PolicyKit, that may be the cause. Look in > >/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and see if that is blocking your access. > > mmm... i don't have this file (or the /etc/PolicyKit directory, for that > matter). i only have the /etc/polkit-1 directory, belonging to > sys-auth/polkit. > > the PolicyKit.conf file should already be there? which package provides > it? or can i just create it from scratch?
Hmmm. "equery b" for /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf or just /etc/PolicyKit doesn't return any packages on my system. I suspect that they belong to some part of KDE, as the permission errors I was tracking down came from the Dolphin file manager, and they could thus control how KDE uses the policykit framework. They may also be leftovers from when KDE/Gentoo used to use policykit, and have since stopped. It's sometimes hard to keep up with these changes. It's possible that I created the file and directory by hand, after finding instructions via Google search, such as https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65070 In case you want to risk this, the full content of my file is: ##################### <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- --> <!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd";> <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format --> <config version="0.1"> <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> <match user="root"> <return result="yes"/> </match> <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*"> <return result="yes" /> </match> </config> ##################### -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
