On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:46:29AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > This patch would be really useful for Xfce too.
> The group concept is useful but having this would make it unneccessary > to add local users to groups just to mount files or shutdown the PC. > It's a desktop user's enhancement. > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf does still use at_console in addition to > the group stuff so I'm not sure why you say most of the files in there > have replaced it with groups. > Is there any way we can get you to reconsider this? This small patch > would mean users in Xfce don't need to add themselves to the plugdev > group to mount digital cameras, USB sticks etc and don't need to add > themselves to sudo (xfce's fallback method) in order to shutdown or > reboot the machine. Upstream don't like the patch and it looks like for 0.5.10 hal will use PolicyKit/ConsoleKit which are supposed to be the way forwards for this stuff. The quote from upstream was: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:00:22PM -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:02 -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > > I believe the plan is to move to PolicyKit/ConsoleKit though not > > likely to happen any time before 0.5.10. > PolicyKit and ConsoleKit are indeed the future. They allow D-Bus to > ask can I do this without having to deal with policy specific > implementations such as pam-console and pam-foreground. I'm not sure when this is going to happen though but perhaps the utopia people do. I see there's a ConsoleKit in experimental already. Simon. -- [ Do earwigs make chutney? Do spiders make gravy? ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
