On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote:
<to...@tuxteam.de> writes:
On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote:
Richmond <richm...@criptext.com> writes:
David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes:
[...]
I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to prompt
for the root password. Perhaps it is not installed. I don't know what
it is called.
Is there a debian package for this? :
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce-polkit
"A simple PolicyKit authentication agent for XFCE"
There seem to be several options [1]. Gksu, some polkit thingy...
Blame my search engine if it fails ;-)
Cheers
[1] https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=11728
Gksu is a frontend for su which a developer would apply to an app as I
understand it. I am dealing with an applet, so I cannot edit its icon
and put a wrapper in.
Some polkit thingy would be xfce-polkit I think, but I found no debian
package.
I do not see a package specifically for Xfce, but I do see one for MATE:
2022-05-14 15:11:15 root@laalaa ~
# apt-cache search policy kit | sort | grep polkit
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 - GObject introspection data for PolicyKit
libpolkit-agent-1-0 - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API
libpolkit-agent-1-dev - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API - development
files
libpolkit-gobject-1-0 - PolicyKit Authorization API
libpolkit-gobject-1-dev - PolicyKit Authorization API - development files
libpolkit-qt5-1-1 - PolicyKit-qt5-1 library
libpolkit-qt5-1-dev - PolicyKit-qt5-1 development files
lxpolkit - LXDE PolicyKit authentication agent
mate-polkit - MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1
mate-polkit-bin - MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 (executable
wrapper script)
mate-polkit-common - MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1 (common
files)
polkit-kde-agent-1 - KDE dialogs for PolicyKit
ukui-polkit - UKUI authentication agent for PolicyKit-1
My Debian 11 Xfce has the following, installed by
debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso:
2022-05-14 15:13:47 root@laalaa ~
# dpkg-query -l '*polkit*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===========================-================-============-=================>
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 GObject
introspec>
un gir1.2-polkitagent-1.0 <none> <none> (no
description a>
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit
Authent>
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit
Authori>
un polkit-1-auth-agent <none> <none> (no
description a>
David
