Re: polkit & udisks

[Andy Wingo]

Wow that's great!  Thank you Ludo :)  Next stop, pam_elogind and then we
can maybe get gnome-session working :)  Thanks again for the service
refactorings!

Andy

On Sun 01 Nov 2015 17:04, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi!
>
> Commit 222e331 changes ‘polkit-service-type’ so that other services can
> extend it with new polkit “actions” and “rules,” which colord and
> elogind do.
>
> Commit 2b9e0a9 adds UDisks to ‘%desktop-services’.  Now, one can run
> things like:
>
>   udisksctl status
>   udisksctl mount -b /dev/foo
>
> Hopefully GUIs (Xfce?) automatically detect things like USB keys that
> are inserted and might even be able to mount/unmount them (though I
> think that, since this is restricted to people sitting at the computer,
> and since we don’t use pam_elogind yet, that only works for ‘root’ ATM.)
>
> Anyway, I would be glad if desktop-savvy people could report back!
>
> This addresses some of the problems that Andy identified when adding
> polkit and friends this summer, which led to the service refactoring.
> So it sort of closes the loop.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.