Some Eclipse Foundation services are deprecated, or will be soon. Please ensure you've read this important communication.

Bug 342896

Summary:	[unifyprofiling] Move to PolicyKit for authorization
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Andrew Overholt <overholt>
Component:	LinuxTools	Assignee:	OProfile Inbox <linux.oprofile-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, jjohnstn, kksebasti, rgrunber
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	368786

Description Andrew Overholt

2011-04-14 16:46:31 EDT

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit states:

"PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes"

This is a good freedesktop.org standard that is distribution agnostic and it's important that we move to using it instead of the existing consolehelper/sudo/group-based solutions.

Comment 1 Andrew Overholt

2012-03-12 15:17:36 EDT

The CQ that was filed for this has been closed and PolicyKit has been approved as a "workswith" dependency.  This means that OProfile (and other) integration plugins should still function without PolicyKit present:

"The Eclipse software does not require the third party software to be present. If the third party software happens to be present, the Eclipse software may call or invoke it." [1]

[1]
http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Eclipse_Policy_and_Procedure_for_3rd_Party_Dependencies_Final.pdf

Comment 2 Jeff Johnston

2012-03-19 16:05:58 EDT

Code checked into master repository and will be part of Juno M6 milestone.  The consoleHelper scripts have been renamed for M6 and will be removed for M7.

Comment 3 Alexander Kurtakov

2012-04-05 13:02:47 EDT

Jeff can we close this now?

Comment 4 Jeff Johnston

2012-04-05 16:05:20 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Jeff can we close this now?

Done.