On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:23:02 -0500
David Zeuthen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> As mentioned earlier I've been working on a rewrite of PolicyKit here
> 
>  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~david/polkit/tree/
> 
> To recap, the main motivation for this rewrite is to make it easier to
> write backends that reads authorizations from a networked resource
> (such as a LDAP server). In addition, I (and others) have identified
> a couple shortcomings in the current PolicyKit that we can fix at the
> same time.
> ...
> Here's a brief list of differences
> ...
>  - The authorization backend to use can be chosen at run-time (not
>    yet implemented but easy) using the GIO extension point system


Not mentioned is the dependency on PAM.  Is that going to be optional
in the final version? 

-RW

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