New package: PolicyKit

[channelzero]

From README: PolicyKit is an authorization framework. It is typically used by privileged user space daemons to control access.

Homepage: ​http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit

Advantage: in desktop-environments like gnome unprivileged daemons/programs need access to privileged actions, PK makes it possible to fine tune these access policies. Todays stable gnome 2.24.0 does already use PK, in favor of distro-specific tools. With PK and ConsoleKit it is possible to have a desktop-system without the need to log in as root.

Nitpick: there is a configure switch --with-os-type, distro-specific stuff

Dependencies:

dbus, glib, dbus-glib, pam, perl, XML::Parser, intltool

Installation: create polkit user and group:

 groupadd -g 20 polkituser
 useradd -c "PolicyKit User" -d /dev/null -u 20 -g polkituser -s /bin/false polkituser

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib/PolicyKit --localstatedir=/var
make
make install

Configuration:
this grants user foo all access
/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->

<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-freedesktopDTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0EN" "​http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">

<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->

<config version="0.1">

<match user="foo">

<return result="yes"/>

</match>

</config>

[Wayne Blaszczyk]

Committed package PolicyKit-0.9.

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Milestone 6.5 deleted