Bug 308934 - polkit-kde-kcmmodules-1 should not edit files in /usr
Summary: polkit-kde-kcmmodules-1 should not edit files in /usr
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: policykit-kde-agent-1
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kcm_auth (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR grave
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dario Freddi
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Reported: 2012-10-24 15:30 UTC by Chris Reffett
Modified: 2013-11-24 19:03 UTC (History)
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Description Chris Reffett 2012-10-24 15:30:15 UTC 
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438790 for details, but essentially, polkit-kde-kcmmodules is editing files in /usr, but those files should be static and user changes should be going into /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/. Right now, this is messing up the directory structure and often leads to weird issues when debugging polkit problems (from KDE touching other packages' .policy files), and user settings are frequently overwritten on upgrade. Also, polkit allows /usr to be mounted RO, and this configuration prevents that.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Martin Bříza 2013-03-26 14:47:30 UTC 
Reassigning to the kcm_auth component
Comment 2 Hrvoje Senjan 2013-05-18 13:54:45 UTC 
I am raising the severity, as current behavior is rather useless - user looses all of his setup on package upgrades...