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jfb3

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Registered: 2011-08-20

Posts: 68

pkexec - not authorized [solved]

I know about this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127648

I created /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.policy

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>

  <action id="org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.run-thunar">
    <description>Run Thunar as root</description>
    <message>Authentication is required to run Thunar as root</message>
    <defaults>
      <allow_any>no</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
    </defaults>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/thunar</annotate>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">TRUE</annotate>
  </action>

</policyconfig>

My result of

pkexec thunar

is

Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.

What did I miss?

Last edited by jfb3 (2011-10-05 18:26:13)

nbvcxz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 202

Re: pkexec - not authorized [solved]

Ok first please make us sure that polkit (/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd) daemon is running (I assume that it must be running if you use consolekit eg. with any login manager) and that authorization agent is started (lxpolkit or polkit gnome).

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jfb3

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Registered: 2011-08-20

Posts: 68

Re: pkexec - not authorized [solved]

polkit is running

root       882     1  0 Oct05 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd

I have to run polkit-gnome?  I can't find documentation on running it.  Daemon, does it get called as needed???

I think I may have reached the point of diminishing returns.

I don't need all the complication.  It's not like I need to protect my machine from me.  Now, if I was setting up a departmental server that'd be different.

I think I'll just do it like this in my menu:

terminator -T "thunar/root sudo password" --geometry 300x50+20+20 --command "sudo thunar"

Thanks for your help.