On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:04 PM, pahnin sd <[email protected]> wrote: > today i came across with a strage problm with my frnd's ubuntu 10.04 > > he is using it fine but suddenly shutdown sound and mount command got > disabled > > and when i was searching on google i got this link > > http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1536632 > > in that someone stated that install policykit and checked out the below > > http://live.gnome.org/PolicyKit > > but i cant understand what is the relation between these two > > anyway i installed it and every thing work fine !! > > if any one can explain me how this happened I will feel great
Well, I don't have an exact idea about what it is, but in Linux, by default only root can access everything. Anybody else cannot access anything (except his home dir and commands). PolicyKit probably lifts those restrictions. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
