On or about Wednesday 20 May 2009 at approximately 04:00:48 am bardo composed:
2009/5/20 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>:
On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 03:33:03 bardo composed:
2009/5/18 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>:
<match group="users"> <return result="yes"/> </match>
I think this may be your problem. I searched some time ago and found out PolicyKit didn't support group matches. A quick look to the PolicyKit.conf(5) man page seems to confirm this is still the case. Now, I don't know if an invalid entry could invalidate the whole config, but it's worth a try.
Corrado
Corrado,
You and I may be saying the same thing for two different circumstances. Admin_auth certainly allows both user and group auths for actions (man 5 PolicyKit.conf):
define_admin_auth
I wasn't saying you can't use "group" as an attribute for "define_admin_auth", I was saying you can't use it as an attribute for "match". So at least that rule won't work, I tried it before. Now, I don't know how PolicyKit deals with wrong parameters, but in the worst case it could treat the whole file as invalid, and that could be why your *other* rules don't work.
I hope I made myself clearer this time :)
Corrado
Yep, I'll give Policy kit another shot when I pop the archlinux drive back in. If Policy Kit is ignoring the whole file (which it shouldn't do, but seems like it is), then that should be logged somewhere. I have been through everything.log and messages.log, etc. and there isn't any message like that. If it isn't logging rejections, then we need to find a way to have it do so. It would sure make troubleshooting policy kit problems a whole lot easier. Thank you for your help.