Bug 228765

Summary:	Importing fonts system wide asks for root access for every single font
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Pascal Bakhuis <pBakhuis>
Component:	kcm_fontinst	Assignee:	Craig Drummond <craig>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	The font dialog

Description Pascal Bakhuis 2010-02-27 16:28:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

I used 'Configure Desktop' > 'Font Installer' and in the dialog that pops up when the 'add' button is clicked I selected all fonts from my windows directory.  Then I chose the 'open' option and for every single font I was asked to enter the root password. In KDE 4.3 this was asked only once.

Comment 1 Dario Andres 2010-02-27 18:10:50 UTC

- If you run "kcmshell4 fontinst" on Konsole, do you get the same FontInstalling module ?
Regards

Comment 2 Pascal Bakhuis 2010-03-01 15:07:04 UTC

Created attachment 41236 [details]
The font dialog

Yes, in both cases I get window on the screenshot.

Comment 3 Craig Drummond 2010-04-11 13:45:50 UTC

I can confirm this under openSUSE 11.2 using the KDE4:Factory packages. I have contacted the KAuth maintainer to asses whether this is an issue with the font installer, openSUSE packages, or KAuth.

The openSUSE 11.2 packages seem to be using the polkit-1 KAuth backend, and when I originally wrote the KAuth port of the font installer my system (openSUSE 11.2) was setup to use the policykit backend. The policykit backend worked as expected - i.e. only a single authorisation prompt.

Comment 4 Craig Drummond 2010-04-20 21:30:52 UTC

SVN commit 1116983 by craig:

In policykit, the persistence was given implicitely for the running
application, whereas for polkit this has to be given explicitely.

Using 'Persistence=session' resolves this.

BUG: 228765


 M  +1 -0      fontinst.actions  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1116983

Comment 5 Craig Drummond 2010-04-20 21:42:57 UTC

To help until this appears in a KDE 4.4 patch release, edit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.fontinst.policy and change 'auth_admin' to 'auth_admin_keep'