On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Tomas Cech <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:31:21PM -0200, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Tomas Cech <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> as I'm trying to get E17 into openSUSE, I'm trying to tune >>> sysactions.conf. I'm trying to get rid of suid bit for >>> /usr/lib64/enlightenment/utils/enlightenment_sys >>> >>> All my actions use DBUS messages so suid bit is useless (ok, I haven't >>> done mount/unmount yet). When I remove suid bit from this binary, >>> suspend fails and in log I have: >>> >>> ERROR: UNABLE TO ASSUME ROOT PRIVILEGES >>> >>> Running >>> /usr/lib64/enlightenment/utils/enlightenment_sys suspend >>> works fine, so my question is - is really needed check for root >>> privileges there? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Tomas Cech >>> Sleep_Walker >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >>> contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, >>> security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this >>> data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >> >> yes we do. But there is a better way we could do, patches accepted (no >> time to do it myself): >> - have hibernate/suspend/... using upower >> - have other actions using proper daemons using dbus + polkit >> (udisks, timedated...) >> - whatever else use polkit's features such as pkexec. >> > > That's probably what I want to have there: > > action: halt dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit > /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop > action: reboot dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit > /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager > org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart > action: suspend dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower > /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend > action: hibernate dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.UPower > /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Hibernate
I was meaning to change E17 to not even call enlightenment_sys for such cases. > But you have probably in mind something smarter, right? Well this is > the reason I don't need root privileges, but it won't work without > passing that check. > > It could make sense to at least have configuration option in > sysactions.conf not to require root privileges. > Something like: > > option: need_root false > >> Would you be able to help us with that? > > I'm occupied by family (4 month old baby takes a lot of power and > time) and work (learning at new position). My time is very limited and > I'm afraid that even night builds take too much time already. > > I know nothing about that and I have never done anything similar so it > would take a while. It doesn't make sense to start with this when > workaround is simple and makes sense - it's more like fix from my POV. > I should rather add more packages to nightly builds. need_root seems fine, but maybe it should be per-action? What if you need_root for shutdown but not for suspend? no idea if that may happen... just wondering -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [email protected] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
