Bug 404806

Summary:	Use policy kit in yast2
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FEATURE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Michael Monreal 2008-06-28 12:02:50 UTC

Currently you still often see the old yast password dialog in suse, mostly (only?) if you start yast2 or a yast module. It would be much nicer if yast was policykit enabled. Not only would this allow showing the same dialog as for example PackageKit apps currently already use, but it would also allow to give yast usage permissions to users using the policy kit editor.

Having two different auth systems is certainly confusing, hopefully this can be fixed for openSUSE 11.1.

Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2008-06-28 12:04:37 UTC

Created attachment 224983 [details]
Screenshot

This shows the yast2 and policykit auth dialogs. As you see the policykit dialog is much nicer, and makes use of properly themed icons (yast dialog is missing a window icon and uses some old-style dialog icon). Also, the policykit dialig is integrated with the keyring.

Comment 2 Michal Zugec 2008-07-06 13:14:33 UTC

This is already in FaTE (internal feature requests tool)