Comments on: PolicyKit (and KDE), Navit and more http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/05/policykit-and-kde-navit-and-more/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:03:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: justposted http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/05/policykit-and-kde-navit-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-810 justposted Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:51:59 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/?p=455#comment-810 Finally! I've read a lot of random forum posts on this, offering plenty of things to try, but yours was the first that was clear, explained the background, and resolved my issue. Many thanks. Finally! I’ve read a lot of random forum posts on this, offering plenty of things to try, but yours was the first that was clear, explained the background, and resolved my issue. Many thanks.

]]> By: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/05/policykit-and-kde-navit-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-441 adamw Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:13:25 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/?p=455#comment-441 AIUI, the current situation in Mandriva is that anything that uses kdesu or gksu upstream is left that way, and anything that we think it makes sense to handle this way - have it accessible on a user menu but prompt for root password and run as root - is handled by console-helper, including all the MDV tools. The future plan is to migrate all console-helper stuff to PK (it's generally agreed that it's better) and hope upstream migrates the kdesu / gksu stuff. Hosting - anything that works and could take the load, I guess. :) I was looking at a <a href="http://www.linode.com" rel="nofollow">Linode</a>, they're not too expensive and I do like having complete control of the server. Unfortunately it's not straightforward to run Mandriva on one. AIUI, the current situation in Mandriva is that anything that uses kdesu or gksu upstream is left that way, and anything that we think it makes sense to handle this way – have it accessible on a user menu but prompt for root password and run as root – is handled by console-helper, including all the MDV tools. The future plan is to migrate all console-helper stuff to PK (it’s generally agreed that it’s better) and hope upstream migrates the kdesu / gksu stuff.

Hosting – anything that works and could take the load, I guess. :) I was looking at a Linode, they’re not too expensive and I do like having complete control of the server. Unfortunately it’s not straightforward to run Mandriva on one.

]]> By: eugeni http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/05/policykit-and-kde-navit-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-439 eugeni Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:33:31 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/?p=455#comment-439 Thanks for the quick tour on PolicyKit, I was just looking on its internal functionalities these days (to integrate it into msec). I guess at some point all system authorization is going to be handled by PolicyKit, but for now we have all sort of different authentication mechanisms working together (console-helper, gksu, different pam schemes, and so on).. and sometimes they just contradict each other. Hopefully PolicyKit will solve it in the future. As for hosting, are you looking for some dedicated hosting, or just some good shared hosting options? In the latter case, I'd recommend bluehost. It gives tons of bandwidth and disk space, and I haven't had any problem with it for the last few years, even with big sites (30K+ visitors per day). Thanks for the quick tour on PolicyKit, I was just looking on its internal functionalities these days (to integrate it into msec). I guess at some point all system authorization is going to be handled by PolicyKit, but for now we have all sort of different authentication mechanisms working together (console-helper, gksu, different pam schemes, and so on).. and sometimes they just contradict each other. Hopefully PolicyKit will solve it in the future.

As for hosting, are you looking for some dedicated hosting, or just some good shared hosting options? In the latter case, I’d recommend bluehost. It gives tons of bandwidth and disk space, and I haven’t had any problem with it for the last few years, even with big sites (30K+ visitors per day).

]]> By: Dark_Schneider971 http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01/05/policykit-and-kde-navit-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Dark_Schneider971 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:04:41 +0000 http://www.happyassassin.net/?p=455#comment-438 thanks for this article. Very insightful concerning PolicyKit. thanks for this article. Very insightful concerning PolicyKit.

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