Bug 86121 - Provide a polkit_authority_check_authorization() alternative with fallback
Summary: Provide a polkit_authority_check_authorization() alternative with fallback
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: PolicyKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: libpolkit (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
QA Contact: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
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Reported: 2014-11-10 18:03 UTC by Miloslav Trmac
Modified: 2018-08-20 21:38 UTC (History)
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Description Miloslav Trmac 2014-11-10 18:03:52 UTC 
With http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/polkit.git/commit/?id=1224d7b427a507339087e2f72c481b560c85149b , and docs/polkit/overview.xml saying
> <emphasis role='bold'>DO</emphasis> make sure
> your application works even when the
> <literal>org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1</literal>
> D-Bus service is not available

libpolkit-gobject really should provide an one-stop API that implements the fallback.  We do not want dozens of applications hard-coding UID=0 and having to be individually modified to take capabilities/SELinux/whatever comes in the future into account
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:38:21 UTC 
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