In F11 to run PolicyKit I entered the following at the command line.
polkit-gnome-authorization
In F12 this doesn't work. I get an error message "command not found"
How do I access PolicyKit in Fedora 12?
How can I get rid of all policykit restrictions that fedora 13 has? I just upgraded from fedora 10 and of course my freenx sessions are again unable to do anything useful like mounting a drive. Difference is no GUI now to help fix this. So I would like to get rid of all restrictions.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to make the edit referenced on this page. But obviously it is for an older Ubuntu version because the /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf file does not exist on my 10.04 system.
How do I go about making this edit for however 10.04 handles PolicyKit calls now?
It details I should be replacing a line that looks like
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With
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Any ideas where I would find such a line?
I can't seem to find the "Authorizations" GUI that was present in earlier ubuntus for configuring system policies. It used to be in System - Administration - Authorizations. Which package does it come in? What's the console command for it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to make the edit referenced on this page. But obviously it is for an older Ubuntu version because the /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf file does not exist on my 10.04 system.
How do I go about making this edit for however 10.04 handles PolicyKit calls now?
It details I should be replacing a line that looks like
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<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
With
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<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
[Code].....
Looks like its some sort of PolicyKit issue. Documentation (and I suspect the system itself) all assume that I have only one user. But my computer is a two-seat, my girlfriend and I are logged in at the same time. Only I am able to mount and write to USB drives. I suspect its because my account is always logged in first.
Dolphin gives the following error: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy
blah blah org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable auth_admin_keep_always
So my guess is that this "auth_admin" for some reason only refers to my user. I opened up the "Global Configuration" application (something that typed up when I filtered for 'policy' in the application launcher), and added my user, my girlfriends user and the 'user' group as "System Administrators". I logged out and logged back in on her account and this did nothing.
why can I not allow remote sessions admin rights? why is there a remote exception thrown when Gnome auto mounts my cdrom? Here is a valid use case for auto mounting on a headless server. Server live in external room, admin pc lives in different part of same building. Server needs new software on CD admin walks to server puts cd in server walks to admin pc installs software. Currently you need to mount manually. not a big deal but could be so much easier if I didn't have to do this.who can a moan to in order to get policykit changed.
P.S. I'm a developer willing to put my time where my mouth is and change this.
after a recent update my policykit permissions stopped working, and I can't understand why.An example: mounting a flash drive requires password, hinting on rg.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount. /usr/share/polkit-/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy has the following:
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<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">
<description>Mount a device</description>
[code]....
I installed Fedora 13 and use the Gnome desktop. I want to keep my installation as clean as possible and have heard some contrary advice about installing both Gnome and KDE desktops, so I want to stay with just Gnome. In the past I have mixed both and feel that resulted in tons of packages that I probably didn't need and tons of updates all the time. However, some applications seem to be KDE applications and installing them requires installation of many KDE packages. This is a source of confusion for me:
Is there a distinction between Gnome applications and KDE applications? If so, how do you tell the difference? Should one NOT install KDE applications if you are using the Gnome desktop and not interested in installing KDE desktop? Is there a best practice on how to approach which software to install so that you do not create a mix and match mess?
I recently started trying fedora 10 out on live cd (in my case usb ) and loving it. I want to install it, should I get the dvd image, or would it be okay for me to just install off live cd (usb) and install whatever I want through the package manager later... Why/why not? Also on live usb, I can't find the package manager under applications.
View 7 Replies View RelatedIn Xorg.0.log, if you have an extension disabled in the configuration file, you will see: (**) Extension DAMAGE disabled In the first few lines ... however, later on you see (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE So which is it? Is there a memory map or something I can dump and view to see which extensions are actually loaded into the X server? Is there a delineation between "disabled/enabled" and "initialized"? OK I found it:
xdpyinfo -queryExtensions | awk '{print; if (NF<=1) exit;}'
I was recently messing around with the partitions on my tri-boot system and ultimately messed everything up. After a few hours of tinkering I was able to recover but learned something interesting in the process.Something has changed with FDISK, or some underlying component, from FC12 to FC14. I keep partition backups so when I mess things up, I restore using dd. Anyway I think I was restoring partitions at the wrong starting blocks as some partitions worked while others did not. I just happened to notice the start for sda1 on FC14 and said to myself, that's not right.
Anyway take a look as the 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' for FC12 and FC14. What gives? My backups were all made on an FC12 install and when I restored from an FC12 boot CD all is well. Anyone know what the deal is? Should I recreate all my backups again using FC14? Not sure how the boot sector is affected with this FC14 sda1 start at 64.
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*** FC12 x64
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
[code]....
The Wikipedia says that the frequency of the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ is 2000 MHz.
For that processor, on FC 12 64 bit
cat /proc/cpuinfo
shows:
cpu MHz : 1000.000
for each processor.
Is that supposed to "add up" to 2000 MHz for both? My old GA-K8N-Ultra SLI motherboard has its BIOS set for "top performance", so I hesitate increase any clock speed or multiplier.
I have a home network with 6+ x86_64 machines, all with similar setups. In the past (FC10 and before), I've had common package repositories (e.g /var/cache/yum/fedora/packages) shared via NFS with all the machines (and with keepcache=1 in /etc/yum.conf). That way, a given RPM only got downloaded once; the other machines would then pull it from my local package repository. And I don't mind the disk usage of keeping one copy of all my old RPMS around.
It seems that while DRPMS is great for a single machine, it doesn't make sense in my case. If I have to download the DRPM 6 times (and take the time/CPU hit to recreate the RPM 6 times), I might as well have downloaded the RPM once and been done with it. Is there a not-too-convoluted method to keep a common package repository across multiple machines even with DRPMS? Or, better, to have that first downloading machine pull a DRPM, generate the RPM, then save the RPM in the local shared repository?
I put a text file on my desktop and added a couple lines of text with gedit. File type shows text/plain. Double-click opens the file in gedit which is what I want. I'm using the file to temporarily hold some snips of code that I copy from file to file, but when I copy some html into the file and save it, now file properties show it's text/html and a double-click opens the file in firefox, which isn't what I want. Is there some way to keep the file type from changing itself?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhy should I concern myself only with a graphical front end rather than learning APT or RPM? Or are those really, really hard to learn?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm on Ubuntu 10.10
I was using K3B the other day and could not find an option to rip a CD to mp3 files instead of ogg. How can I do this?
I just built a computer with a MSI 760GM-E51 Motherboard, AMD Phenom II 955 CPU and 4 GB memory (2 x 2 GB G.Skill DDR3-1333 PC3-10666) I first installed 10.04 LTS 64bit. But I think I am going to go to 11.04. I am just looking for a vote, would you install 32 or 64 bit. I am not a real power user, biggest thing I would do would be video editing. If I am going to play resource demanding games, I would probably boot into XP.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a script that basically adds a zypper repo, then proceeds to install and configure FreeNX.To add the repo:
Code:
zypper addrepo Index of /repositories/X11:/RemoteDesktop/openSUSE_11.1 RemoteDesktop
To install FreeNX & it's relevant dependencies:
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zypper install FreeNX
To setup and configure FreeNX:
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nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge
sed -i 's/AllowUsers idcuser/AllowUsers idcuser nx/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
service sshd reload
[code]....
After completing these steps on version 11, I can immediately open the FreeNX client (windows 7), and connect. On 11.1, at the very end of the FreeNX connect, just after "Dowloading the session information", I get:
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NX> 105 startsession --link="lan" --backingstore="1" --encryption="1" --cache="16M" --images="64M" --shmem="1" --shpix="1" --strict="0" --composite="1" --media="0" --session="170.224.164.19" --type="unix-gnome" --geometry="1274x956" --client="winnt" --keyboard="pc102/en_US" --screeninfo="1274x956x16+render"
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).NX> 280 Exiting on signal: 15 I've googled this to death, and tried a bunch of random changes to both ssh and nxserver, but I can't seem to get rid of it. What might have changed from 11 to 11.1 that could cause this behavior change? The NXserver seems to be configured and running identical on both systems.
Are there big disadvantages to building a computer around a motherboard with ATI Radeon graphics instead of Nvidia? I am using an AMD CPU to save money, but all the motherboards AMD recommends use ATI. I have always used Nvidia in the past, And am not sure what the current state of ATI Linux drivers is. I know I would be giving up VDPAU acceleration for video playback, but hopefully the Athlon� II X4 635 processor I am looking at has enough horsepower to handle this on it's own, even for high-def h264.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWith the problems I seem to be having I was wondering about data integrity of an optical disc vs a USB drive.How about transfer speed? I assume you can format a usb drive as ext4. I am beginning to wonder why I put 2 new dvdr/rws in my new computer.Is an external hard drive the best solution for backing up files?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying my hand at Bash scripting. I have a file with lots of pinyin, which is the romanized version of Chinese characters and words. A typical entry looks like this,
"7 shuo1 to speak"
Seven is the number of the entry shuo is the pinyin, 1 is the tone mark and is the Chinese character.
What I would like to do is change the format so that it looks more like this:
7 shuo 1
Each field needs to be re-assigned to a variable in an array and then printed to the screen and saved to a file in the same order it was input. This is to prepare the data for another project I am working on in imagemagick.
I have spent all day looking at linux man pages and have very little to show for my efforts. What is the best way to approach this? grep, awk, sed...?
I have a Dvd of Slackware as well as an Iso image of Arch.
All i know about the difference between Slackware and Arch is the stability, i.e. Slackware is more stable than Arch !
Is that all or there is some other difference which should be considered ?
Which one out of the above two, should i go for and why ?
i have some servers behind a server/router/firewall at [URL] that can be accessed using port forwarding. they are working quite well. [URL] gets you to the first server behind the server/router/firewall (the former link above).
i would want to make the server at the latter link accessible with its own domain name ie [URL]without having to add :<port> to the end of [URL] because ":" is disallowed for aliasing in the a and cname records at network solutions (my dns?). is port forwarding the best way to reach these servers behind my firewall? is it possible to assign them their own domain name? perhaps some method other than port forwarding should be used?
trying to do a multiboot, just for fun Now I installed Foresight Linux, which was not such a good.Foresight is based on rpath and uses Conary as update system Now Conary destroyed all other linux systems installed on the other partitions. Now I found that there is something such as hide and unmount but have read several pages full of it but still have no idea what is the difference between the two and more important, how to use this as most explanations seem to complicated How can I hide partitions for a booted linux operating system so it is unable to see it, use it or even mount it when it tries
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am integrating my Unix box to the Windows AD using PAM_LDAP and Kerberos enabled. I was wondering, since Kerberos is enabled is there any point to enable SSL on my LDAP.conf? My understanding is that since Kerberos is enabled, therefore the username/password is sent securely there isn't any benefit of enabling SSL on the LDAP.conf? It's one of or another.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am leading a project at work that will require at least one new server. There will be a development server and a production server, which changes from development will be rolled onto. Unfortunately, I am more of a web programmer than a Linux guru, and I really don't know whether or not it is better to have two physical servers or two virtual servers on one machine. I don't think there will be a huge toll on the machine, as there will probably be around 1000 total users and less than 100 on at any given time. We are also able to spend quite a bit on the server, so I'm sure one could handle it, but I just wanted to check and see what the advantages and disadvantages would be in this situation.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIt is my understanding that building from source is slightly faster since the created binary will be specific to the current kernel/system. This seems to have the drawback of when the kernel is upgraded the source compiled package will no longer work...but this is not always the case. So what kernel upgrades will cause a package from source not to function? Side bar to that, I have a package that is only available in source format that I need to install on numerous hosts. It seems that the upfront work of creating my own RPM for this package is worth it to make managing the package more efficient, and I think I have two choices: src-rpm and standard binary rpm. If I build a src-rpm and I distribute that for installation will a kernel upgrade 'break' the package since it is actually being compiled for a specific kernel at the time of install? So far I have found a lot of information, and have spent time reading the rpm docs, etc, but I don't feel like I have a good grasp of what the specific portability differences are between source, src-rpm, and rpm.
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