[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1023393: policykit-1: Not prompted to authenticate with my own identity any more

[Sam Morris]

On 03/11/2022 15:17, Sam Morris wrote:
> But I suppose this should become a bug against polkitd-pkla since in 
> practice its 49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules will never be called since 
> 40-debian-sudo.rules is called first.
> 
> Perhaps one solution would be to renumber to << 40, and ship a 
> pklocalauthority config file with 'unix-group:sudo'. This will ensure 
> that systems where polkitd-pkla is installed will match the default 
> behaviour of systems where it isn't installed.

FYI, Fedora ship their default admin rules with these numbers:

# ls /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/
49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules  50-default.rules

50-default.rules is equivalent to Debian's 40-debian-sudo.rules file 
(although Fedora use the wheel group rather than sudo).

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