Bug 78276

Summary:	Packagekit polkit policy is completely desktop centric
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	Stef Walter <stefw>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	policy: Make the polkit policy not be desktop-centric

Description Stef Walter 2014-05-05 06:20:25 UTC

The Packagekit polkit policy is completely desktop-centric and expects that the user (admin or not) is logged in an active local session (ie: a seat in logind parlance, with a monitor and keyboard).

This prevents use of PackageKit when logged in via ssh (and using pkttyagent as your polkit agent) or via Cockpit.

The <allow_any> tag in polkit policy applies to non-local sessions. It should be set to something other than 'no' unless the action directly affects hardware of the login seat.

The attached patch fixes this issue.

Comment 1 Stef Walter 2014-05-05 06:21:07 UTC

Created attachment 98447 [details] [review]
policy: Make the polkit policy not be desktop-centric

    The polkit policy should allow admin users logged in via ssh
    or Cockpit (for example on a server) to perform the actions
    in question.  The <allow_any> applies non local sessions.

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2014-05-06 08:23:01 UTC

Pushed to master, thanks.

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