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                                            Chris Wiggins

polkit: create hook to check for polkit permissions

Further to the above, I'd also like to look into creating a hook to get really fine-grained permissions for the systemd services page too, so we can selectively check if...

polkit: create hook to check for polkit permissions

Hey @martinpitt - I've made those changes you mentioned and am much happier with how it looks - thanks for the pointers! Let me know what you think, I'd be...

polkit: create hook to check for polkit permissions

Hey @martinpitt - more of an update as I have been trying to do the same thing in the systemd services page. Turns out we can't ask specifically if a...

polkit: create hook to check for polkit permissions

Yes a very tricky one indeed! What about we still add the ability to check for "high-level" polkit permissions for units (like I did in NetworkManager) and then the more...

polkit: create hook to check for polkit permissions

Hey @martinpitt - looping back into this after a small hiatus! Would there be appetite for a very small helper utility that ran as root, which could run the pkcheck...

polkit: create hook to check for polkit permissions

I agree it's a hard problem! A fun one to dive into 😉 How about a dbus helper that we can call with something like `canPerformAction('modify_network')` which behind the scenes...

`make` should re-run `./build.js` on changes to `po/`, possibly others

Hi, We've run into this in Yocto where we're patching parts of the source from the xz release archive to better suit our needs internally. Currently we have to force...