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duyinthee

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[SOLVED] Find what is action.id of ydotool for polkit.rules?

I am trying to write a polkit rule for ydotool.
Is it possible?

I know ydotool and ydotoold are required to run as root.
It makes me headache to write a script using ydotool.

Although I found many posts online to get ydotool works without asking password everything,
I want to use polkit rule to grant ydotool and ydotoold root privilege.

I read this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit … tion_rules
and if I replace org.gnome.gparted with action.id of ydotool and ydotoold, is it possible?
If so, how can I find the adction.id of ydotool and ydotoold?
I do pkaction command and it shows many action.id but ydotool is not included.

Last edited by duyinthee (2024-01-11 01:29:03)

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Re: [SOLVED] Find what is action.id of ydotool for polkit.rules?

"pkexec"

if I replace org.gnome.gparted with action.id of ydotool and ydotoold, is it possible?

No, there's no ydotool "action.id" - this isn't how polkit works.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit#Actions

I know ydotool and ydotoold are required to run as root.

Do you? Do they?
What distro do you use?
The arch package ships a udev rule to open uinput.

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duyinthee

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Re: [SOLVED] Find what is action.id of ydotool for polkit.rules?

oh, thanks.

No, there's no ydotool "action.id" - this isn't how polkit works.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit#Actions