I have sort of a personal interest in this as well (so that a friend of mine finally stops complaining :-) ) and it is a part of the PK privileges reshuffling that I still need to do for lucid.
In short, we really want to allow some privileges by default for admins on desktop boxes. Amongst those are mounting internal drives, setting the clock, and changing the CPU frequency. udisks currently ships a .pkla file for internal drives, but I'd really like to move that into a "policykit-desktop-privileges" package, so that we don't need to provide the privileges by default on servers. This package should then also allow setting the time and CPU frequency. ** Also affects: gnome-applets (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Low Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) Status: Confirmed ** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu Lucid) Importance: Low => Medium ** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu Lucid) Milestone: None => ubuntu-10.04-beta-2 ** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu Lucid) Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) => Martin Pitt (pitti) -- CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor asks for authentication all the time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455694 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs