Bug 439951

Summary:	PolicyKit default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	gnome-packagekit	Assignee:	Robin Norwood <robin.norwood>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	davidz, smohan
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2008-04-01 02:51:28 UTC

Description of problem:

GPK uses policy kit and the default is set to retain the authentication
permanently. I think that is unexpected behaviour. The default should be just to
retain the authentication for the current session. I would prefer a option to
retain for something like 10 minutes and the option to revoke it via a sys tray
applet like how it was before.  

Additional info:

This is potentially a policy kit issue. Feel free to reassign if that's the case.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2008-04-01 05:54:00 UTC

You _can_ revoke your authorizations using polkit-gnome-authorization.
But that is hardly a user-friendly solution. David had some plans to write an
enduser frontend for authorization handling, but I don't know when that will
show up.

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2008-04-01 10:43:02 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 439844 ***