Bug#857391: gnome-logs does not prompt the user to elevate privileges

[User]

Package: gnome-logs
Version: 3.22.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: newcomer

Dear Maintainer,

gnome-logs does not prompt the user to elevate privileges. As a result, when
the user opens this application, they have a very limited view of the system
logs. There is also no clear path for the user to elevate privileges.

This could easily be addressed by following the same method used by gnome-
system-log to prompt the user to elevate privileges.

Namely:
1. Create a policy for gnome-logs in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/
2. Change the .desktop file to invoke 'gnome-logs-pkexec' pkexec handler script
in /usr/bin/
3. Change /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Logs.service to also invoke the
pkexec handler script
4. Drop the pkexec handler script in /usr/bin (see /usr/bin/gnome-system-log-
pkexec' for an example

Once all this is done, gnome-logs will prompt the user to elevate their
privileges. If they authenticate successfully, they will see all of the logs.
If not, they will see the limited view.



-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Subgraph
Description:	Subgraph GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)
Release:	9.0
Codename:	stretch
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 4.9.9-grsec-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-logs depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-2+b1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.22.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.24-9
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.50.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.8-1
ii  libsystemd0                                  232-18

gnome-logs recommends no packages.

gnome-logs suggests no packages.

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