Bug 1094149

Summary:	colord polkit policy is desktop centric, prevents server usage
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stef Walter <stefw>
Component:	colord	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Stef Walter 2014-05-05 07:40:16 UTC

Description of problem:

The shipped polkit policy is completely desktop-centric and expects that the admin user is logged in an active local session (ie: a seat in logind parlance, with a monitor and keyboard).

This prevents DBus API use when logged in via ssh (and using pkttyagent as your polkit agent) or via Cockpit (which is a valid use case, eg: printers driven by servers or server software).

The <allow_any> tag in polkit policy applies to non-local sessions. It should be set to something other than 'no' unless the action directly affects hardware of the login seat.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

colord-1.1.7-1.fc20.x86_64

Comment 1 Stef Walter 2014-05-05 07:40:41 UTC

https://github.com/hughsie/colord/pull/5

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2014-05-08 09:33:06 UTC

Fixed upstream. Thanks.