[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#504450: policykit: Not obvious how to configure PolicyKit in a passwordless manner

[Josh Triplett]

Package: policykit
Version: 0.9-1
Severity: normal

(I don't know whether this bug lies with policykit, policykit-gnome,
or both.  Please reassign as appropriate.)

I have my system configured with sudo, using NOPASSWD.  I also
configured gksu to use sudo, so it doesn't prompt for a password; it
only pops up a notification message.

However, I don't see how to configure PolicyKit in the same way.  I
want to configure it to give specific users or groups blanket
permission to do anything, without entering a password, though ideally
with a confirmation dialog first.

Ideally I'd like to see PolicyKit configured that way by default for a
designated group, so that I can simply add a user to that group.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages policykit depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.2.10-2   framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                         2.7-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libpam0g                      1.0.1-4+b1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpolkit-dbus2               0.9-1      library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit-grant2              0.9-1      library for obtaining privileges v
ii  libpolkit2                    0.9-1      library for accessing PolicyKit

Versions of packages policykit recommends:
ii  policykit-gnome               0.9-1      GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit

policykit suggests no packages.

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