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Bug 342896 - [unifyprofiling] Move to PolicyKit for authorization
Summary: [unifyprofiling] Move to PolicyKit for authorization
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: LinuxTools (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: OProfile Inbox CLA
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Blocks: 368786
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Reported: 2011-04-14 16:46 EDT by Andrew Overholt CLA
Modified: 2022-01-13 14:51 EST (History)
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Description Andrew Overholt CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2012-04-05 13:02:47 EDT 
Jeff can we close this now?
Comment 4 Jeff Johnston CLA 2012-04-05 16:05:20 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Jeff can we close this now?

Done.