On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 10:53:39AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Context for XFCE and polkitd maintainers (cc'd): a user of XFCE on a > sysvinit/elogind system has found that authorizing privileged operations > via polkit is not working as intended. I'm not at all sure that this is > actually an elogind problem: it might be a result of XFCE not obviously > containing a polkit agent (the component that does the actual prompting).
Hey Simon, I'm a bit unsure how to reply to your mail because I don't really see questions. Still providing some bits which might be helpful. > [...] > > I am not familiar with XFCE, but I believe it is meant to include a polkit > agent of some sort? I can't find a particularly obvious candidate among > the packages that depend on libpolkit-agent-1-0 or provide > polkit-1-auth-agent, though. It might be helpful to install a standalone > polkit agent (perhaps lxpolkit or mate-polkit) and see what happens if you > run it manually before triggering a privileged operation. Xfce doesn't provide an authentication agent, as far as I can tell. There was an xfce-polkit agent tentative https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-polkit but it didn't really pick up, is not really maintained and we never packaged it in Debian. > [...] > > Historically the polkit agent of last resort was policykit-1-gnome (which > was the one that was used in GNOME 2), but that one is unmaintained > upstream (a concerning situation for a security-critical component!) and > no longer accepts bug reports or merge requests, so the polkit maintainers > are trying to arrange for it not to be included in trixie (#990271). > Please do not rely on policykit-1-gnome. If it is the most suitable polkit > agent for XFCE, then the XFCE team will need to fork it and become the new > upstream maintainers of the fork. > On this box I'm apparently indeed using policykit-1-gnome. I think we might use mate-polkit without too much issues (although it brings accountsservice as a new dependency). Regards, -- Yves-Alexis _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list Pkg-utopia-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
