Bug 295810

Summary:	kcm alters wrong files, i.e. those that get overwritten when packages are updated
Product:	[Plasma] policykit-kde-agent-1	Reporter:	S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component:	kcm_auth	Assignee:	Dario Freddi <drf>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dantti12, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description S. Burmeister 2012-03-11 23:28:57 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
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If one alters permissions via the kcm it changes files in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ which are overwritten when packages are updated, i.e. those are the wrong files to change.

Local changes should be placed into: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/

This means that if users change some rule that rule has to be copied to /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/ with the new settings.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-06 15:16:28 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-18 03:26:56 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? This bug will be moved back to REPORTED Status for manual review later, which may take a while. If you are able to, please lend us a hand.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-04-07 16:05:37 UTC

This KCM no longer exists in Plasma 5.