platform/upstream/polkit.git
16 years agoalso encode \n\r\t characters
David Zeuthen [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:38:08 +0000 (21:38 -0500)]
also encode \n\r\t characters

16 years agorework the .auths file format to use key/value pairs and make it future-proof
David Zeuthen [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:33:35 +0000 (20:33 -0500)]
rework the .auths file format to use key/value pairs and make it future-proof

16 years agoset errno to ENOMEM when forcibly failing an allocation
David Zeuthen [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:11:04 +0000 (20:11 -0500)]
set errno to ENOMEM when forcibly failing an allocation

16 years agoadd support for percent encoding/decoding and colon separated kv-lists
David Zeuthen [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:08:22 +0000 (17:08 -0500)]
add support for percent encoding/decoding and colon separated kv-lists

16 years agomake dummy backend work
David Zeuthen [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:58:27 +0000 (22:58 -0500)]
make dummy backend work

16 years agofix 'make check-coverage'
David Zeuthen [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:46:50 +0000 (22:46 -0500)]
fix 'make check-coverage'

16 years agoremove Since gtk-doc tags from the internal libkit library
David Zeuthen [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:40:42 +0000 (21:40 -0500)]
remove Since gtk-doc tags from the internal libkit library

16 years agodefine abstract Authentication Agent interface and make polkit-auth(1) use it
David Zeuthen [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:38:44 +0000 (16:38 -0500)]
define abstract Authentication Agent interface and make polkit-auth(1) use it

Also provide a convenience function to access it: polkit_auth_obtain().

16 years agomake PolKitAuthorization a bit more future proof by adding get_type()
David Zeuthen [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:00:33 +0000 (01:00 -0500)]
make PolKitAuthorization a bit more future proof by adding get_type()

16 years agoprovide a way to force a reload of all caches etc.
David Zeuthen [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:25:34 +0000 (00:25 -0500)]
provide a way to force a reload of all caches etc.

16 years agoadd support for negative authorizations
David Zeuthen [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:25:30 +0000 (23:25 -0500)]
add support for negative authorizations

Negative authorizations is a way to block an entity; previously the
algorithm was something like (ignoring the config file for now)

  Result is_authorized() {
    res = has_implicit_auth();
    if (res == YES) {
      return YES;
    } else if (has_explicit_auth()) {
      return YES;
    }
    return res;
  }

Now it's

  Result is_authorized() {
    res = has_implicit_auth();
    expl = has_explicit_auth();
    is_blocked = has_negative_explicit_auth();

    if (is_blocked)
      return NO;

    if (res == YES) {
      return YES;
    } else if (has_explicit_auth()) {
      return YES;
    }
    return res;
  }

E.g. just a single negative auth will force NO to be returned. I
really, really need to write into the spec how this works; my mental
L1 cache can't contain it anymore. Once it's formally defined we need
to craft a test suite to verify that the code works according to
spec...

16 years agoexport the policydir in the .pc file
David Zeuthen [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:47:18 +0000 (12:47 -0500)]
export the policydir in the .pc file

This is useful when building a project using polkit in a different
prefix. Lennart asked for it.

16 years agorequire org.fd.pk.revoke to revoke auths for self if granted by someone else
David Zeuthen [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:27:56 +0000 (00:27 -0500)]
require org.fd.pk.revoke to revoke auths for self if granted by someone else

16 years agoprovide convenience functions for auth checking and port helpers to use them
David Zeuthen [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:16:23 +0000 (19:16 -0500)]
provide convenience functions for auth checking and port helpers to use them

Basically, checking auths with polkit is now a one-liner:

    if (polkit_check_auth (getpid (), "com.acme.some-action", NULL) == 0) {
        fprintf (stderr, "Not authorized; go away\n");
        exit (1);
    }

This can be used for making a lot of the legacy UNIX tools PolicyKit
aware. For example, vixie-cron could make crontab(1) (a setuid
program) check whether the calling user is authorized for the action

 org.isc.vixie-cron.edit-own-crontab

This is a nice way to provide least privilege and still put the system
administrator in control via polkit-auth(1), polkit-action(1) and the
GTK+ "Manage Authorizations" utility:

 http://people.redhat.com/davidz/polkitg-auth-1.png
 http://people.redhat.com/davidz/polkitg-auth-2.png
 http://people.redhat.com/davidz/polkitg-auth-3.png

16 years agoadd support for vendor, vendor_url and icon_name tags in .policy files
David Zeuthen [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:17:50 +0000 (21:17 -0500)]
add support for vendor, vendor_url and icon_name tags in .policy files

16 years agorestrict new API to the default backend only
David Zeuthen [Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:47:51 +0000 (16:47 -0500)]
restrict new API to the default backend only

16 years agoadd API for overriding defaults and make polkit-action(1) use this API.
David Zeuthen [Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:43:25 +0000 (16:43 -0500)]
add API for overriding defaults and make polkit-action(1) use this API.

16 years agofix a grave bug where the wrong authorizations were returned
David Zeuthen [Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:50:29 +0000 (11:50 -0500)]
fix a grave bug where the wrong authorizations were returned

We were modifying the 'uid' parameter in _authdb_get_auths_for_uid();
I bet that if we had unit tests this bug would have been caught
earlier...

17 years agofix parallel build
David Zeuthen [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:43:10 +0000 (13:43 -0500)]
fix parallel build

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13082

17 years agocreate /var/lib/misc on 'make install'
David Zeuthen [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:14:22 +0000 (13:14 -0500)]
create /var/lib/misc on 'make install'

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13113

17 years agobuild system fixes and refuse to install if built with --enable-tests
David Zeuthen [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:10:46 +0000 (13:10 -0500)]
build system fixes and refuse to install if built with --enable-tests

17 years agoadd unit test framework to the rest of the library sources
David Zeuthen [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:08:02 +0000 (20:08 -0500)]
add unit test framework to the rest of the library sources

17 years agofix build for dummy backend
David Zeuthen [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:03:46 +0000 (19:03 -0500)]
fix build for dummy backend

17 years agoalso check for file descriptor leaks
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:38:14 +0000 (18:38 -0500)]
also check for file descriptor leaks

17 years agotweak how we do coverage reporting
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:58:00 +0000 (17:58 -0500)]
tweak how we do coverage reporting

17 years agoremove glib dependency from libpolkit.so
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:09:26 +0000 (17:09 -0500)]
remove glib dependency from libpolkit.so

17 years agodon't overflow when splitting a string
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:08:38 +0000 (17:08 -0500)]
don't overflow when splitting a string

17 years agoactually include the files with the spawn functions
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:32:22 +0000 (16:32 -0500)]
actually include the files with the spawn functions

17 years agoadd spawn function to libkit
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:31:55 +0000 (16:31 -0500)]
add spawn function to libkit

17 years agoadd (empty, for now) tests for remaining files
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:32:01 +0000 (11:32 -0500)]
add (empty, for now) tests for remaining files

17 years agouse kit_strsplit in polkit-sysdeps
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:05:41 +0000 (00:05 -0500)]
use kit_strsplit in polkit-sysdeps

17 years agoadd strsplit function
David Zeuthen [Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:02:41 +0000 (00:02 -0500)]
add strsplit function

17 years agoalso include libkit in top-level coverage report
David Zeuthen [Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:23:38 +0000 (18:23 -0500)]
also include libkit in top-level coverage report

17 years agosplit utility bits into a private statically linked library
David Zeuthen [Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:17:38 +0000 (18:17 -0500)]
split utility bits into a private statically linked library

getting closer...

$ grep glib *.c
polkit-authorization.c:#include <glib.h>
polkit-authorization-db.c:#include <glib.h>
polkit-authorization-db-dummy.c:#include <glib.h>
polkit-config.c:#include <glib.h>
polkit-context.c:#include <glib.h>
polkit-sysdeps.c:#include <glib.h>

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitAuthorization
David Zeuthen [Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:15:44 +0000 (14:15 -0500)]
add unit tests for PolKitAuthorization

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitAuthorizationConstraint
David Zeuthen [Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:23:01 +0000 (12:23 -0500)]
add unit tests for PolKitAuthorizationConstraint

17 years agoforgot to add src/Makefile.am
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:29:02 +0000 (15:29 -0500)]
forgot to add src/Makefile.am

17 years agoadd unit tests of PolKitPolicyCache
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:26:43 +0000 (15:26 -0500)]
add unit tests of PolKitPolicyCache

17 years agouse unique action names
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 19:20:58 +0000 (14:20 -0500)]
use unique action names

17 years agoadd test case for PolKitError to get to 100%
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:58:10 +0000 (12:58 -0500)]
add test case for PolKitError to get to 100%

17 years agoadd some gtk-doc to private bits to get doc coverage to 100%
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:43:23 +0000 (12:43 -0500)]
add some gtk-doc to private bits to get doc coverage to 100%

17 years agofix build with all library soruce in src/
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:37:38 +0000 (12:37 -0500)]
fix build with all library soruce in src/

17 years agomove all library source to a src/ directory
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:26:31 +0000 (12:26 -0500)]
move all library source to a src/ directory

This is primarily so gtk-doc can target only libraries. Needs lots of
fixing; will be done in upcoming commits.

17 years agoreimplement string hashing and comparison
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:24:17 +0000 (12:24 -0500)]
reimplement string hashing and comparison

17 years agoadd doubly-linked lists
David Zeuthen [Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:09:40 +0000 (19:09 -0500)]
add doubly-linked lists

17 years agohook up expat to use our memory handling API
David Zeuthen [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:55:08 +0000 (16:55 -0500)]
hook up expat to use our memory handling API

Disable by default because, unfortunately, expat seems to leak on
certain OOM paths. Sigh.

17 years agoalso dist test .policy files
David Zeuthen [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:01:07 +0000 (16:01 -0500)]
also dist test .policy files

17 years agoincrease test coverage for PolKitPolicyFile
David Zeuthen [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:55:49 +0000 (15:55 -0500)]
increase test coverage for PolKitPolicyFile

17 years agofix some unaligned access bugs
David Zeuthen [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:55:02 +0000 (15:55 -0500)]
fix some unaligned access bugs

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitPolicyFile and add some features to PolKitHash
David Zeuthen [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:03:42 +0000 (12:03 -0500)]
add unit tests for PolKitPolicyFile and add some features to PolKitHash

17 years agoimprove coverage of PolKitPolicyFileEntry by switching to PolKitHashTable
David Zeuthen [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:28:33 +0000 (15:28 -0500)]
improve coverage of PolKitPolicyFileEntry by switching to PolKitHashTable

17 years agoimplement polkit_hash_foreach
David Zeuthen [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:31 +0000 (14:59 -0500)]
implement polkit_hash_foreach

17 years agoexport memory mangement and hash table functions
David Zeuthen [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:41:03 +0000 (13:41 -0500)]
export memory mangement and hash table functions

17 years agoimplement our own hash table with 100% test coverage
David Zeuthen [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:34:45 +0000 (13:34 -0500)]
implement our own hash table with 100% test coverage

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitPolicyFileEntry
David Zeuthen [Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:05:58 +0000 (11:05 -0500)]
add unit tests for PolKitPolicyFileEntry

We're only at 78@ coverage; need to reimplement GHashTable...

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitPolicyDefault
David Zeuthen [Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:39:23 +0000 (20:39 -0400)]
add unit tests for PolKitPolicyDefault

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitCaller
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 23:06:22 +0000 (19:06 -0400)]
add unit tests for PolKitCaller

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitSession
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:13:44 +0000 (18:13 -0400)]
add unit tests for PolKitSession

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitSeat
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:50:35 +0000 (17:50 -0400)]
add unit tests for PolKitSeat

17 years agoadd unit tests for PolKitResult
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:34:33 +0000 (17:34 -0400)]
add unit tests for PolKitResult

17 years agoimplement OOM testing
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:21:53 +0000 (17:21 -0400)]
implement OOM testing

The glib dep removal. It has begun.

17 years agoadd tests for PolKitError
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:53:41 +0000 (15:53 -0400)]
add tests for PolKitError

17 years agoremove dead code
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:24:36 +0000 (15:24 -0400)]
remove dead code

17 years agoextend test coverage for PolKitAction
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 19:21:10 +0000 (15:21 -0400)]
extend test coverage for PolKitAction

It's now at 100%. Yay me.

17 years agoadd unit test framework with gcov coverage support (make check-coverage)
David Zeuthen [Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:40:13 +0000 (14:40 -0400)]
add unit test framework with gcov coverage support (make check-coverage)

This is what it looks like

==============================================================================
Test coverage for module polkit:
==============================================================================
polkit-sysdeps.c                                        :   0% (0 of 38)
polkit-error.c                                          :   0% (0 of 44)
polkit-result.c                                         :   0% (0 of 16)
polkit-context.c                                        :   0% (0 of 213)
polkit-action.c                                         :  34% (20 of 58)
polkit-seat.c                                           :   0% (0 of 34)
polkit-session.c                                        :   0% (0 of 97)
polkit-caller.c                                         :   0% (0 of 81)
polkit-policy-file-entry.c                              :   0% (0 of 72)
polkit-policy-file.c                                    :   0% (0 of 220)
polkit-policy-cache.c                                   :   0% (0 of 98)
polkit-policy-default.c                                 :   0% (0 of 67)
polkit-debug.c                                          :   0% (0 of 15)
polkit-utils.c                                          :   0% (0 of 42)
polkit-config.c                                         :   0% (0 of 263)
polkit-authorization.c                                  :   0% (0 of 162)
polkit-authorization-constraint.c                       :   0% (0 of 107)
polkit-authorization-db.c                               :   0% (0 of 222)

Source lines          : 6919
Actual statements     : 1849
Executed statements   : 20
Test coverage         : 1%

17 years agoupdated TODO list
David Zeuthen [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 05:21:47 +0000 (01:21 -0400)]
updated TODO list

17 years agointroduce one-shot authorizations
David Zeuthen [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:23:33 +0000 (23:23 -0400)]
introduce one-shot authorizations

17 years agomake polkit_context_is_[caller|session]_authorized() take a PolKitError
David Zeuthen [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:41:00 +0000 (14:41 -0400)]
make polkit_context_is_[caller|session]_authorized() take a PolKitError

17 years agorename revoke_if_oneshot to is_mechanism and also expose this on D-Bus
David Zeuthen [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:19:24 +0000 (13:19 -0400)]
rename revoke_if_oneshot to is_mechanism and also expose this on D-Bus

17 years agoavoid defining the same functions in both libpolkit and libpolkit-grant
David Zeuthen [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:48:57 +0000 (12:48 -0400)]
avoid defining the same functions in both libpolkit and libpolkit-grant

Looks like I forgot to delete those when doing the big move in
commit d9d790870b0372162091b00e19e38a24472a306d

17 years agoremember to reset killtimer and fix an error message
David Zeuthen [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:27:06 +0000 (21:27 -0400)]
remember to reset killtimer and fix an error message

17 years agoprovide a polkit D-Bus service that is activated on demand
David Zeuthen [Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:17:08 +0000 (21:17 -0400)]
provide a polkit D-Bus service that is activated on demand

Right now we provide two methods

 IsProcessAuthorized
 IsSystemBusNameAuthorized

This is useful for a couple of reasons

 - some mechanisms (e.g. Avahi) runs in a chroot and their only
   life-line to the world is a system bus connection. If it were to
   use libpolkit (and Lennart says he wants it to, yay!) it would need
   to bindmount crazy stuff into the chroot.

 - languages for which libpolkit bindings not yet exist can use
   this interface

Going forward, this service can expose a private interface meaning we
can get rid of (almost) all of our setgid helpers.

17 years agomove authdb write functions to libpolkit-grant
David Zeuthen [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:21:04 +0000 (18:21 -0400)]
move authdb write functions to libpolkit-grant

This is primarily to keep libpolkit as minimal as possible as all that
mechanisms will ever need is the ability to read from the authdb.

17 years agorearrange the docs so all API is in one section
David Zeuthen [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:46:41 +0000 (17:46 -0400)]
rearrange the docs so all API is in one section

Also specificy, per function and class, if it's not in libpolkit.

17 years agouse _destroy, not _unref for hash tables
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:30:36 +0000 (15:30 -0400)]
use _destroy, not _unref for hash tables

The latter is only in glib 2.10.

Pointed out by Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@web.de>.

17 years agofix uid retrival when getting auths from all users
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:36:58 +0000 (01:36 -0400)]
fix uid retrival when getting auths from all users

17 years agofix docs
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:23:45 +0000 (00:23 -0400)]
fix docs

17 years agofix build with dummy backend
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:46:54 +0000 (23:46 -0400)]
fix build with dummy backend

17 years agolet authdb backends synthesize policy file entries
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:43:03 +0000 (23:43 -0400)]
let authdb backends synthesize policy file entries

17 years agominor build system and doc fixes
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:32:11 +0000 (23:32 -0400)]
minor build system and doc fixes

17 years agomove Linux specific code into a single file
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:13:16 +0000 (23:13 -0400)]
move Linux specific code into a single file

Haven't moved the inotify stuff yet; not sure about what abstraction
we need...

17 years agomove all private functions into a private header file
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:06:25 +0000 (22:06 -0400)]
move all private functions into a private header file

17 years agomake the authdb pluggable and add a dummy backend as an example
David Zeuthen [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:30:06 +0000 (21:30 -0400)]
make the authdb pluggable and add a dummy backend as an example

17 years agorewrite authorization database and polkit-grant (now known as polkit-auth)
David Zeuthen [Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:18:37 +0000 (19:18 -0400)]
rewrite authorization database and polkit-grant (now known as polkit-auth)

Also,

 - Rename polkit-list-actions to polkit-action.
 - Add a bash completion script to the polkit commandline tools.

Authorizations are no longer world-readable. So for this to work with
hal you now need to do this as root

 # polkit-auth --user haldaemon --grant org.freedesktop.policykit.read

Distributions needs to do this in the %post scripts or similar.

Sorry for this huge monster patch.

17 years agoremember to set uid on PolKitSession
David Zeuthen [Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:38:00 +0000 (19:38 -0400)]
remember to set uid on PolKitSession

17 years agomove POLKIT_GNUC_DEPRECATED to a separate line so gtk-doc is happy
David Zeuthen [Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:37:38 +0000 (15:37 -0400)]
move POLKIT_GNUC_DEPRECATED to a separate line so gtk-doc is happy

Also document this symbol

17 years agocreate an API for interfacing with the Authorization Database
David Zeuthen [Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:29:55 +0000 (15:29 -0400)]
create an API for interfacing with the Authorization Database

This is necessary to make UI like this

 http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/Screenshot-Manage%20Authorizations.png

export some useful actions such as granting, revoking and displaying
authorizations.

Previously this API was internal, polkit/polkit-grant-database.[ch],
and linked into polkit-grant(1) and libpolkit-grant(3) through a
static library libpolkit-private.so.

Only polkit-grant have not been ported; libpolkit-grant(3) uses this
API natively now. Internally, right now, the new API just uses
polkit-grant-database.[ch] directly but that is about to change...

17 years agoadd docs for POLKIT_[BEGIN|END]_DECLS and also add POLKIT_GNUC_DEPRECATED
David Zeuthen [Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:25:44 +0000 (15:25 -0400)]
add docs for POLKIT_[BEGIN|END]_DECLS and also add POLKIT_GNUC_DEPRECATED

17 years agouse the Since: tag so gtk-doc can print what symbols are new in 0.7
David Zeuthen [Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:44:25 +0000 (12:44 -0400)]
use the Since: tag so gtk-doc can print what symbols are new in 0.7

17 years agowork on the docs
David Zeuthen [Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:26:38 +0000 (21:26 -0400)]
work on the docs

Now we have diagrams! With happy candy colors too!

17 years agodon't spew debug output in libpolkit-dbus
David Zeuthen [Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:10:06 +0000 (11:10 -0400)]
don't spew debug output in libpolkit-dbus

17 years agoavoid including regex.h from a public header file
David Zeuthen [Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:53:16 +0000 (23:53 -0400)]
avoid including regex.h from a public header file

17 years agoadd C++ include guards and a new method to get pfe's by annotation
David Zeuthen [Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:42:43 +0000 (21:42 -0400)]
add C++ include guards and a new method to get pfe's by annotation

17 years agoadd support to PolKitTracker for also asking on pid
David Zeuthen [Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:44:16 +0000 (13:44 -0400)]
add support to PolKitTracker for also asking on pid

17 years agopost-release version bump
David Zeuthen [Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:53:19 +0000 (20:53 -0400)]
post-release version bump

Better late than never!

17 years agoadd id's so the generated HTML has stable and predictable file names
David Zeuthen [Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:50:57 +0000 (20:50 -0400)]
add id's so the generated HTML has stable and predictable file names

17 years agoadd the convenience class PolKitTracker
David Zeuthen [Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:38:13 +0000 (20:38 -0400)]
add the convenience class PolKitTracker

This class allows a mechanism to greatly reduce the syscall and IPC
overhead when checking whether a caller on the system bus message is
allowed to do a specific action. In a nutshell, this class caches
PolKitCaller objects and a) updates them when ConsoleKit emits
ActivityChanged signals; and b) evicts such objects from the cache
when the caller drops off the bus.

There's also an example, in examples/tracker-example/ that shows how
to use this. This example is referenced in the API docs too.

17 years agoupdate NEWS POLICY_KIT_0_6
David Zeuthen [Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:50:30 +0000 (17:50 -0400)]
update NEWS

17 years agomake polkit-list-actions print information about <allow_any>
David Zeuthen [Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:46:29 +0000 (13:46 -0400)]
make polkit-list-actions print information about <allow_any>

17 years agodon't fail on unknown XML tags, just skip them
David Zeuthen [Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:36:11 +0000 (13:36 -0400)]
don't fail on unknown XML tags, just skip them

This change will futureproof libpolkit for extensions; e.g. if there's
an OS upgrade where

 a) the PolicyKit package is upgraded to a version where support for a
    new tag <allow_foo> is added; and

 b) another package, using PolicyKit, is upgraded dropping a .policy
    file using the new <allow_foo> tag; then

existing running processes using libpolkit will not fail. They will,
however, not honor the new tags until the daemon process itself is
restarted using e.g. condrestart.

We also log to the system logger whenever we encouter unknown tags.