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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Need help with KAuth
From:       Dario Freddi <drf54321 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-23 19:55:01
Message-ID: 201003232055.10956.drf54321 () gmail ! com
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On Tuesday 23 March 2010 20:34:56 27/249 wrote:
> After a month, I finally found the issue and solved problems, so I
> think you should know details and clarify it in some howto.

That's good news. Feel free (you or some good volunteer) to add a page to 
{Tech,User}Base: there are plently of useful info around b.k.o and my blog, 
more than in this thread.

> 
> First of all: ConsoleKit is required, not optional. Without this stuff
> - nothing works.

Yes. But it's a requirement for polkit itself, and not KAuth. However, you can 
still bypass ConsoleKit by changing the system policies for "All consoles", 
which default to "no".

It's not like polkit does not work without consolekit: it's just that by 
default you're not authorized at all to do anything. So it definitely appears 
like it's not working, but you're simply unauthorized.

> Second place: I had built polkit-1 with wrong paths, there should be
> --libexecdir=/usr/lib/polkit-1

This is totally unrelated to KDE, and should not affect at all KAuth. I think 
it should definitely work without that specific libexec dir (in fact on my 
system it's even different).

> After that, I rebuilt whole KDE, and at least pkexec started working,
> and KAuth-enabled stuff appears to show that it can work, but it still
> didn't work. As I found little later, it was because in slackware
> default config dir for KDE is /etc/kde, not /etc, so dbus stuff was
> placed in wrong place. When I finally move this to right place,
> everything works fine.

Good news. Please, be also aware that the stuff that goes in /etc is related 
to DBus and not KDE, so if you don't like to move files manually you can:

 - Add a configuration file to dbus telling it to look somewhere else for the 
config files
 - Change the installation path of the DBus system policies in KDE buildsystem 
to put them in the correct directory. Have a look into 
kdelibs/cmake/modules/KDE4Macros.cmake, macro kde4_auth_install_helper_files

If I were you I'd definitely go for the second.

> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:06 PM, 27/249 <i27249@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@redhat.com> 
wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:27:12 27/249 wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Dario Freddi <drf54321@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >>> > polkit-kde-1 is what's missing. Please note that you need to restart
> >>> > your session (it should install an autostart service) to make it
> >>> > work
> >>> 
> >>> Of cource i did (full reboot to make sure). Service started
> >>> successfully:
> >>> 
> >>> aix@mac2:~$ ps ax | grep polkit
> >>>  3987 ?        S      0:00 /usr/libexec/polkitd
> >>> 29966 ?        S      0:00
> >>> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 -session
> >>> 106d616332000126642557400000038940008_1266428309_620771
> >>> 
> >>> But, as said below, it doesn't work.
> >>> 
> >>> Am I right that all required components seems to be installed? Maybe,
> >>> we forgot something else?
> >> 
> >> It should be... You need polkit-1, polkit-1-qt and polkit-1-kde. Could
> >> you try Gnome Authentication Agent? If this fails - then problem is in
> >> polkit-1, if not - we have some problem in polkit-1-qt.
> > 
> > Just tried polkit-gnome, it doesn't work too. As far as I see, some
> > dbus configs are missing (at least, I cannot find any xml that
> > specifies an authentication agent). Seems that trouble begins from
> > there.
> > I'll try to rebuild some things and report if something changes.
> > 
> > --
> > Best regards, AiX 27/249 <i27249@gmail.com>
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