Bug#863483: kodi: Provide polkit file for shutdown actions for kodi-standalone

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 27/05/17 16:45, Sebastian Bachmann wrote:
> Source: kodi
> Version: 2:17.1+dfsg1-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> to use kodi-standalone to a full extend, one need to add a polkit file to allow
> the kodi user to shutdown the machine.
> As the systemd service is also provided by the package, I think it would be good
> to provide this file as well or note it in the README (I was not able to find
> it).
> 
> The content of the file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/kodi.pkla
> should look like this:
> 
> [kodi user]
> Identity=unix-user:kodi
> Action=org.freedesktop.login1.*
> ResultAny=yes
> ResultInactive=no
> ResultActive=yes

Allowing the 'org.freedesktop.login1.*' action is probably too much,
since that also allows the kodi user to do some things which only root
should be able to do (like killing other sessions/users).

James

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