[illumos-Developer] HAL with RBAC

[Andrew Stormont]

The only two things that I've seen in OpenIndiana that depend on the
PolicyKit shim are HAL (which my patch addresses) and gnome-power-manager.
 I've removed libpolkit completely from my system and apart from
gnome-power-manager not working it's still perfectly usable.

On 20/06/2011 17:08, "Albert Lee" <trisk at opensolaris.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Andrew Stormont
><andrew.stormont at nexenta.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>> Also, you need to use Nexenta copyrights on this stuff.  One of the
>>>side
>>> effects of working for a company is that your work on stuff associated
>>>with
>>> your employer
>>> becomes the property of your employer.
>> Yeah I was a little unsure about that as this was a weekend project of
>>mine.
>>> You did not check the return value from g_strdup for NULL
>> The old code didn't check for NULL either but I see your point.  I will
>>fix
>> this.
>>> Is the Hal upstream dead?
>> HAL is currently in maintenance state which means they're only
>>accepting bug
>> fixes.  They do have a solaris backend though which is very broken so
>>maybe
>> they'd still accept fixes to that.  I'm not sure if it makes a lot of
>> difference to us either way.
>>> Because one effect of these changes that I can see is that it would be
>>> harder to merge from the upstream.
>> I wouldn't worry about this making it harder to merge from upstream
>>because
>> the PolicyKit code we already have in place is completely incompatible
>>with
>> what upstream has.  Essentially what I've just done is replaced one
>> incompatible thing with another that has one less dependency, and HAL
>>is the
>> only user of our current PolicyKit implementation.
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>
>HAL may be the only dependent in ON, but GDM and ConsoleKit also
>depend on PolicyKit. I assume this change doesn't affect them, though.
>
>-Albert