Bug 502757

Summary:	switch to using PolicyKit
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component:	setuptool	Assignee:	Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	mhlavink, nalin, redhat-bugzilla, smohan
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Bug Blocks:	502765

Description Rahul Sundaram 2009-05-27 04:55:23 UTC

Description of problem:

usermode/consolehelper is deprecated since Fedora has a better framework now
called PolicyKit. Please switch to using that instead

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne

Comment 1 John Poelstra 2009-06-08 20:18:48 UTC

Added 'FutureFeature' keyword to avoid rawhide base

Comment 2 Michal Hlavinka 2009-08-13 08:35:18 UTC

switching to PolicyKit does not make sense here:
- setuptool is only a menu for executing system-config-*-tui, it has only one source file with only a few lines of the code

what is does: thanks consolehelper it gets root permissions and allows you to use several s-c-*-tui tools without the need of entering root password every time for every tool you use, nothing more, nothing less