17 Jul
2014
17 Jul
'14
6:29 a.m.
On 07/17/2014 10:55 AM, Radek Novacek wrote:
Hi,
this is really great job.
I have one question that came to my mind:
What happens when there is already a polkit agent running in the system?
Let's say I'm connecting to pegasus on my desktop computer where polkit-kde- authentication-agent-1 is already running as part of desktop session. Is it possible to have multiple agents running? Which one will be used to authenticate the request?
That's why our lmipolkitagent starts a new PAM session for a provider process. Each polkit agent is bound to a PAM session, therefore our polkit agent is used only for descendants of our CIM provider process and does not interfere with existing desktop or console polkit agents.
Jan