[Pcsclite-muscle] [PATCH] pcsc-lite & polkit: allow auth_admin

Stanislav Brabec sbrabec
Fri Dec 12 09:32:56 PST 2014


On Dec 10, 2014 at 16:25 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 14:15 +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
>
>>>> It is not ugly, it is a description of a best case scenario. There are
>>>> multiple scenarios where that would break a lot of things if a user don't
>>>> enter a password at the prompt. I'd suggest to keep that patch system
>>>> specific.
>> If the user does not enter password, applications will stop until it
>> happens or until user presses Cancel.
>
> I have no time to investigate, so I take your word that there are no side
> effects.

I cannot guarantee that all applications will work with this delay. Just 
few of them worked.

That is why I sent the second patch that reverts the default behavior to 
the previous state, just keeping a possibility to change the default by 
the configuration.

With both patches, nothing will change in the default policy, which is 
IMHO correct.

-- 
Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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