policy management question

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:32 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> Recent rawhide updates obsoleted PolicyKit and replaced it with
> polkit packages.  This change killed 'polkit-action'.  One can
> reply that it was replaced by 'pkaction' but not quite.
> 'polkit-action' has options like
> --reset-defaults
> --show-overrides
> --set-defaults-any
> --set-defaults-inactive
> --set-defaults-active
> which allowed at least some policies management and changes were
> stored in /var/lib/PolicyKit-public/.  'pkaction' allows you only
> list actions and nothing else seem to be doing any management tasks.
> All .conf files carry a comment:
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, it will be overwritten on update.
> Is one supposed to figure out how to write overrides by hand?

pklocalauthority(8) explains in some detail how to handle overrides with
the new polkit. 


Hope that helps,

Matthias