Comments on: AdminKit 0.0.1

By: Brian Tarricone

Brian Tarricone — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:11:07 +0000

“… which is, in the good old Richard Hughes tradition, a thing called AdminKit…”

Rather, in good old Apple/NeXT tradition…

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:49:36 +0000

Oh cool, but why not get that functionality merged back into policykit?

By: Rodrigo Moya

Rodrigo Moya — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:48:11 +0000

Jeff, OlicyKit just offers the framework for running stuff as root, but it doesn’t contain the actual implementation of those specific tasks (RunAsRoot, AddUser, etc), so AdminKit, based on PolicyKit, offers that.

Michael: no, will not be in 11.1, but in 11.2 probably

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:15:40 +0000

No offense, but what is the point? Can you write a followup blog on why AdminKit exists and the specific niche it is attempting to fill?

What can AdminKit that PolicyKit can’t do already? It seems like you should patch PolicyKit instead of a subset of it.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:21:40 +0000

Nice! will this make it into openSUSE 11.1?

By: anon

anon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:39:43 +0000

I hope you don’t plan to use Perl as in system-tools-backends! It would be good to get rid of system-tools-backends and the Perl dependency once and for all.

By: George

George — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:44:46 +0000

What we really need is to be able to connect to a server and administer it, much like the printer tools in GNOME these days. Well at least the ones in Ubuntu and I image Fedore and SUSE.

This would seriously kick….

By: Gustavo Noronha

Gustavo Noronha — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:41:42 +0000

Hello! Nice work you got there! I wanted to let you know that I am writing a PolicyKit-based version of gksu; take a look here:

http://live.gnome.org/gksu
git://kov.eti.br/srv/git/gksu-polkit.git/

It’s almost feature complete, provides X authentication “forwarding” like the earlier gksu, and also provides a way to let the developers and administrators specify what environment variables should be “forwarded” too.

My code contains a library to provide an easy interface for applications. The library even handles the client-side PolicyKit work, and I/O (stdin/stdout/stderr). Take a look, perhaps we can merge some of your work for RunAsRoot into gksu-polkit and keep going from there?

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:20:56 +0000

Is this going to do stuff like the following?

ethan@home:~$ tail -27 .bashrc
# system command aliases
alias list=’ls’
alias delete=’rm’
alias DELETE=’sudo rm’
alias frigging=’sudo’
alias install=’sudo apt-get install’
alias uninstall=’sudo apt-get remove’
alias check-update=’sudo apt-get update’
alias update=’sudo apt-get upgrade’
alias murder=’sudo killall’
alias get=’wget’
alias GET=’sudo wget’
alias enter=’cd’
alias up=’cd ..’
alias home=’cd ~/’
alias unmount=’umount’

#functions
function remove () { mv “$@” ~/.local/share/Trash/files; }
function REMOVE () { sudo mv “$@” ~/.local/share/Trash/files; }

# enable programmable completion features (you don’t need to enable
# this, if it’s already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile
# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi