PolicyKit

2006-12-18T02:37:44Z

66.227.163.129: Changed GID/UID as original conficted with CLFS.

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== Introduction to PolicyKit ==

<Package Description Needed>

== Dependencies ==

=== Required ===
* [[GIT]] (To get the source)
* [[DBUS]] (With Glib Binding)
* [[Glib2]]
* [[Linux-Pam]]
* [[xmlto]]
=== Optional ===
* [[Gtk-Doc]]

== PolKit User/Group ==

groupadd -g 26 polkit &&
useradd -c "Policy Kit Daemon User" -d /dev/null \
-u 26 -g polkit -s /bin/false polkit

== Getting the source ==

Check out the source from freedesktop.org:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/PolicyKit

It couldn't hurt to make a tarball so you have an unmodified source around for the future:

tar cvjf PolicyKit{.tar.bz2,}

== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var &&
make

Install the package

make install

== Multilib ==

=== 32Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" \
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var &&
make

Install the package

make install

=== N32 ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" \
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
--libdir=/usr/lib32 --with-pam-module-dir=/lib32/security &&
make

Install the package

make install

=== 64Bit ===

Compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" \
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
--libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-pam-module-dir=/lib64/security &&
make

Install the package

make install

== Configuration ==

=== Bootscript ===

There is no pre-made bootscript for PolicyKit at this time. The daemon is at '''/usr/sbin/polkitd''' and it needs to start after [[DBUS]] but before [[HAL]].

== Privileges ==

PolicyKit installs '''desktop-console.privilege''' in /etc/PolicyKit/privilege.d which is the file that [[HAL]] will reference to see if the user can preform a specific operation (mount, cpufreq, hibernate, poweroff, reboot, suspend, etc...). Other privileges that manipulate a local device are most likely going to require this privilege.

There are a few ways to configure a privilege. You can allow anybody by setting '''Allow=uid:__all__''', a specific user by setting '''Allow=uid:username''', or a specific group by setting '''Allow=gid:groupname'''. The same applies for '''Deny'''.

The following command modifies the privilege file so that anyone in the '''users''' group is allowed to manipulate a local device:

sed -i "s/^Allow=.*/Allow=gid:users/" \
/etc/PolicyKit/privilege.d/desktop-console.privilege

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