On 22.11.2012 17:41, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 22.11.2012 14:03, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote:
>> Hi Michael!
>>
>> On 22/11/2012 00:16, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> cinnamon does not provide an own, integrated polkit agent, like e.g. 
>>> gnome-shell or KDE4.
>>
>> Unless I have completely misinterpreted the cinnamon source code, it
>> does provide its own integrated policykit agent which is actually the
>> forked version of gnome-shell (src/cinnamon-polkit-authentication-agent.c).
>>
>> The dependence of cinnamon against libpolkit-agent-1-0 and
>> libpolkit-gobject-1-0 suggests this as well.
>>
>> That's said, you are more expert than me about it. Please provide me a
>> little bit more detail if I am wrong.
> 
> All I can tell you is, that when being logged into a cinnamon session, I
> get the polkit auth dialogs from policykit-1-gnome
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1) and
> /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 is running.

So, the problem is not that cinnamon requires policykit-1-gnome but
rather polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 being started under cinnamon
when it shouldn't.

Michael


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