xfce - confusing rights to shutdown without polkit rules

Olivier Duchateau olivierd at freebsd.org
Tue Aug 23 16:28:58 UTC 2016


On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 19:01:56 +0300
abi <abi at abinet.ru> wrote:

> I see, memory played a trick with me. I was sure that --with-ck-launch 
> is complimentary part of rules. Later, I realized ck is activated by dbus.
> 
> To my excuse:
> 
> 1. polkit sets wrong permissons on /usr/local/etc/polkit-1 folder and 
> has no rights to read directory
> 2. example rules have logic error in braces.
> 3. slim (if used) must be compiled without ck support

2. examples rules have no logic error, it's rather cosmetics changes (my point of view), see polkit(8) examples and you can see no additional braces.

3. x11/slim is compiled with ConsoleKit support, why not uses it?

> Baah, I lost 2 days :)
> 
> Thank you, now I cooked xfce properly!
> 
> On 23.08.2016 19:24, Olivier Duchateau wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:44:32 +0300
> > abi at abinet.ru wrote:
> >
> >>   
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have something mysterious on my installation. I reinstalled, but I
> >> still have the issue.
> >>
> >> xfce4-session states that I must write ck rules to get rights for reboot
> >> and shutdown. However, I have all rights (reboot, shutdown, suspend
> >> hibernate) without any rules at all. All I need is start session with
> >> --with-ck-launch. My user has no additional predefined groups and after
> >> reinstall I have xfce only.
> >>
> >> Maybe I decade :) ago, I remember that ck rules was mandatory. What I'm
> >> missing ? I feel frustrated - it's the first time FreeBSD game me more
> >> rights, not less =/
> > Hi,
> >
> > You need to write your own polkit rules, for shutdown, reboot, suspend and so on.
> >
> > See pkg info -D xfce4-session
> >
> > Stop to launch your session with option --with-ck-launch (usually it's wrong) x11-wm/xfce4-session provides xinitrc script, uses it!
> >
> > For more details, see this thread on the forum [1] and my Xfce's FAQ [2].
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > [1] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/53490/
> > [2] https://people.freebsd.org/~olivierd/xfce-faq.html
> >
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