On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 11:29:58 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2017 05:12:16 Joe wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 23:56:44 +0000 > > > > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Fri 08 Dec 2017 at 23:06:00 +0000, Joe wrote: > > > > On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 17:12:18 -0500 > > > > > > > > Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I do remember having to give a password, but I don't remember > > > > > how long ago now. And I have too much open right now to test > > > > > drive whether mine does it or not these days.. :) > > > > > > > > As I did the other day. I've tried it now (up-to-date unstable) > > > > and it works for a non-root user. > > > > > > Without policykit-1 installed it doesn't; no rebooting or powering > > > off with /sbin/reboot or /sbin/poweroff for a user. CTRL+ALT+DEL > > > from a terminal reboots. That's the same behaviour as sysvinit. > > > > Yes, I understand that, the point is that the first installation of > > policykit-1, which I did not explicitly request, did not ask me if I > > wanted non-root users to be able to reboot, or indeed about anything > > else it might control. Not that it matters on any of my machines, I'd > > just like to have been told that it was changing, and given the option > > to keep it as it was had I needed to. > > Thats another very sore point. Where are the man pages? Its installed on > 6, maybe 7 machines here, with zero docs. What the hell? If debian or > any other distro decides to shove this crap down our throats, at least > have the courtesy of making the docs available. I just searched thru the > repo's with synaptic and came up null and empty on polkit-1. > > So where are the docs?
$ dpkg -L policykit-1 | less will reveal what came with the package, and you'll find the manpages listed there, about 7 of them. Cheers, David.