I’m getting many root authorization pop-ups and there doesn’t seem to be any easy way to fix them. This is all the more annoying, since on my Toshiba laptop, the power saving related actions do not work at all.
Screen brightness changes (due to power plug in/out).
Hard disk spin down timeout (at startup, due to Gnome power saving settings).
Network manager (to connect to a WiFi access point).
Halt, shutdown and reboot also require authorization.
The Yast Security Centre and Hardening wizard has a Predefined Security Configuration for Home Workstation, which I would expect to fix these issues, but it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever.
Is there any way to change these, without having to edit the policykit configuration files manually?
On 01/25/2011 06:06 AM, hermanab wrote:
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> I’m getting many root authorization pop-ups and there doesn’t seem to
> be any easy way to fix them.
what do you mean by “root authorization pop-ups”?
when do they pop up?
what do they look like?
what do they say?
do they ask for the root password?
can you do a screen shot of one, and put it pastebin or somewhere and
shoot us a URL…
> The Yast Security Centre and Hardening wizard has a Predefined Security
> Configuration for Home Workstation, which I would expect to fix these
> issues, but it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever.
maybe you are expecting something which is not available…
> Is there any way to change these, without having to edit the policykit
> configuration files manually?
let us first see what is popping up…please…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.4.4
release 3, Thunderbird3.0.11,]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Yep, seen this as well. And, now that you mention it, this could very well be a regression of Policykit. It was there before…but I can’t find it anymore.
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.4.4
release 3, Thunderbird3.0.11,]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
