clock riddle

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:08:44PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:57 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:13:03PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > 
> > > For me (system is F10, updated to current Rawhide) it asks for user
> > > password.

Once.  And not the next time.  There is this "keep_always".

> What exactly are we trying to establish here ? 
> Is that another riddle ?

No, I misread the above in a hurry.

> If you want to know the default policies, just
> open /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.policy
> and you will find that it is indeed 
> 
>   <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
>   <allow_active>auth_self_keep_always</allow_active>

That can be modified through 'polkit-action --set-defaults-active ...'
so this loop I have shown will print then something else.

    Michal