Bug 69980

Summary: Misleading RegisterAuthenticationAgent documentation
Product: PolicyKit Reporter: Miloslav Trmac <mitr>
Component: daemonAssignee: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Severity: minor    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Miloslav Trmac 2013-09-30 19:26:59 UTC 
In data/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.xml, RegisterAuthenticationAgent documentation includes

> <para>Note that current versions of PolicyKit will only work if @session_id is set to the empty string. In the future it might work for non-empty strings if the caller is sufficiently privileged.</para>

This is from an earlier version of the API, session_id was removed in

> commit 36fc7a6d358c1d373c181191da6265a538a71dae
> Author: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
> Date:   Mon Jul 20 18:49:25 2009 -0400
> 
>     Add support for querying and revoking temporary authorizations
>     
>     Also change how authentication agents are registered (take a Subject
>     instead of the session-id) and add convenience functions to
>     asynchronously construct a PolkitUnixSession object given a process id
>     (by querying ConsoleKit).

Probably should remove the Note paragraph as well.
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