[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#566586: policykit-1: Please ship with a new empty group granted all permissions on console

[Josh Triplett]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.96-1
Severity: wishlist

policykit-1 supports specifying permissions for groups, not just
individual users.

Thus, please consider shipping policykit-1 with a .pkla file granting
all permissions (when on the console) to a new empty group.
The administrator can add users to this group to let them authenticate
via policykit without a password.

(Arguably, users in the "sudo" group, as root-equivalent users, ought to
have this permission, but it seems safest to have a unique group
specific to policykit-1.)

- Josh Triplett

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-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/dash

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  consolekit                    0.4.1-3    framework for defining and trackin
ii  dbus                          1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libeggdbus-1-0                0.6-1      D-Bus bindings for GObject
ii  libexpat1                     2.0.1-7    XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.0-4    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0         0.96-1     PolicyKit backend API
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-1     PolicyKit Authorization API

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

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