On Wednesday 02 September 2009 05:26:55 you wrote: > Il giorno 02/set/2009, alle ore 02.14, Christoph Feck > > ha scritto: > > > > Sounds reasonable, but why does it have to install anything there at > > all? If > > not policies file is found, it should default to something safe. And > > users > > who know the root password can change them later. > > > > Christoph Feck (kdepepo) > > It's actually what it does. The safe default is simply "don't allow > anything". Sure, who know the root pwd can edit files after the > installation, but do you really want to edit 20 policyfiles by hand > just to make kde work? > We need to install files because we want the developer to hint such > defaults. > The problem is not policykit, the problem are paths. There should be a > way to tell policykit to search in another path, too. But it's not > only PK, note that we also have to install dbus files as well. So, > instead of printing a warning, we should print an hint on how to > modify those search paths. > http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html Have a look at servicedir and includedir . Remember /etc/dbus-1/system.conf AND /etc/dbus-1/session.conf . Someone should try to get it work and then blog / post it to techbase . For PolicyKit i didn't look for a solution. Mike