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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] polkit - which one?
Le 02/07/2016 08:34, Didier Kryn a écrit :
> Le 02/07/2016 08:15, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit :
>> On 02.07.2016 08:11, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>
>>>      That would just be great if upstream is smart enough to preserve
>>> this possibility. The external helper is the easy thing (I've my own
>>> ready :-) ) The difficulty for me is packaging.
>> We could just maintain our own patches for that ... should be pretty
>> simple w/ git.

>>
>> My notebook is still on Trusty, so I'll maintain it for Trusty.
>> (the difference should be minimal).
>>
>>> The external helper is the easy thing (I've my own
>>> ready :-) ) The difficulty for me is packaging.
>> Maybe you could just put it into a tiny source package (w/ trivial
>> Makefile). I'd then catch up and add debian build rules and start
>> patching consumer packages.
>>
>
>     It's a simple wrapper meant to be called in place of pkexec, it 
> passes the request to udevil if the command is mount or umount, 
> otherwise it passes it to sudo. I didn't check it with udevil because 
> Thunar doesn't invoke pkexec for mount/umount, but it works fine with 
> sudo, using zenity as dialog to enter the password. Actually I could 
> try to mount/umount with it from the command-line; I didn't think of 
> it because it wasn't the goal; actually I even forgot to read the man 
> of udevil - shame on me! I posted the source on the list yesterday or 
> the day before.


     OK checked my wraper works with udevil. But if it comes to patch 
Thunar, Xfce4 and others, why not invoke directly udevil or sudo? The 
wrapper was only meant to replace pkexec. udevil seems pretty handy.