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Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:36 am
Hi!
Whenever I try to save a setting in "systemsettings" policyeditor, it won't be saved. It does all, when I click on close and reopen, the settings disapperared. In my case I want to change the policy for "mounting system internal disk", so my esata drive gets automounted.Right now it asks me for the password over and over again. Kwallet is not installed and I really want it to stay that way if possible.
Is this a bug? Anything forgotten?
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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:24 pm
It is probably asking for the Root password, and in addition the PolicyKit configuration may not be setup to allow you to make changes using this utility.


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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:27 pm
Hmm, when I try to setup through systemsettings it wants the root password.
While mounting, the user password is asked.
I also tried to start root's KDE and it was not saved through systemsettings.
How could I change it?
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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:39 pm
You will likely need to edit the polkit authorization files by hand. Unfortunately I don't know how that is done...


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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:41 pm
Ok, but why? Isn't editing that the point of the Sy<stemsettings-integration tool?
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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:05 pm
The issue here is that the System Settings tool hasn't been authorized by your distributors packages to make changes to the files.


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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:11 pm
So it is a Gentoo bug and should be reported there?
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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:14 pm
As far as I am aware, yes. It could however be that the policies shipped by KDE don't allow it to function out of the box, but that is unlikely.


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Re: Cannot save setting for polkit

Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:16 pm
Thank you! I am going to fill a bug there.


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