Changeset 07f0c976

Timestamp:

08/01/2009 04:46:25 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

Wayne Blaszczyk <wblaszcz@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

a44b9c0

Parents:

49f7d8b

Message:

Fixed user and group conflict and other issues for PolicyKit. Fixed minor format presentation with linux-pam

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@7916 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

postlfs

Files:

• config/users.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• security/linux-pam.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• security/policykit.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

postlfs/config/users.xml

@@ -78 +78 @@
         <row><entry>apache  </entry><entry>25</entry><entry>25</entry></row>
         <row><entry>smmsp   </entry><entry>26</entry><entry>26</entry></row>
+        <row><entry>polkituser</entry><entry>27</entry><entry>27</entry></row>
         <!-- <row><entry>courier </entry><entry>30</entry><entry>30</entry></row> -->
         <row><entry>exim    </entry><entry>31</entry><entry>31</entry></row>

postlfs/security/linux-pam.xml

@@ -65 +65 @@
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>Optional documentation: <ulink url="&linux-pam-docs-download;"/></para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>Download MD5sum: &linux-pam-docs-md5sum;</para>
+    <title>Optional Documentation</title>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&linux-pam-docs-download;"/></para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download MD5 sum: &linux-pam-docs-md5sum;</para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>

postlfs/security/policykit.xml

@@ -59 +59 @@
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
-    <para role="required"><xref linkend="glib2"/>,
-    <xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
+    <para role="required"><xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
     <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
     <xref linkend="intltool"/>, and
@@ -66 +65 @@
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
-    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
-    <ulink url="http://blog.supportpro.com/2007/08/se-linux/">SELinux</ulink></para>
+    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para>
 
     <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
@@ -77 +75 @@
     <title>Installation of PolicyKit</title>
 
+    <para>It is a requirement to have a dedicated user and group for
+    <application>PolicyKit</application> to function correctly. Issue the
+    following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
+    user:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>groupadd -g 27 polkituser &amp;&amp;
+useradd -c "Policy Kit Daemon User" -d /dev/null \
+    -u 27 -g polkituser -s /bin/false polkituser</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Install <application>PolicyKit</application> by running the following
-    commands:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>groupadd -g 26 polkit &amp;&amp;
-useradd -c "Policy Kit Daemon User" -d /dev/null \
-    -u 26 -g polkit -s /bin/false polkit &amp;&amp;
-./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
-    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/PolicyKit --localstatedir=/var \
-    --with-polkit-user=polkit --with-polkit-group=polkit &amp;&amp;
+    commands as an unprivileged user:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
+    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/PolicyKit --localstatedir=/var &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>