Bug 439951 - PolicyKit default
Summary: PolicyKit default
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 439844
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-packagekit
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Robin Norwood
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-01 02:51 UTC by Rahul Sundaram
Modified: 2013-03-13 05:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-04-01 10:43:02 UTC
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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 ***
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