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Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password

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On 05/15/2018 12:48 AM, John Crawley (johnraff) wrote:
> On 2018-05-14 16:56, Joe wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 May 2018 14:43:55 -0500
>> If your micro-installation contains them, gksu and gksudo are graphical
>> equivalents of su and sudo. I start Synaptic from a menu entry, which
>> uses gksudo.
> 
> gksu is now deprecated as insecure,
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892768
> and will not be available in Debian Buster as far as I can see.
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gksu&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all 
> 
> 
> Even on Stretch and (I think) Wheezy, Gparted and Synaptic both shipped 
> .desktop files which caused them to be launched by the policykit 
> alternative, pkexec instead of gksu.
> 
> Policykit brings its own complications, but I think it should be 
> possible to create a .pkla file in /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority to 
> allow a certain user, or group member, to perform an action defined in 
> /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/* without a password. You could even add a 
> new action if necessary.

Through a chain of references I discovered
   /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.pkexec.gparted.policy

The initial lines read:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
>  "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
>  "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
> <policyconfig>

However
   [http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd]
gives a 404 File not found message.

Where would I find its syntax?

By a convoluted path I found:
[https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html]

Its last example strongly suggests I can do just what I want without  
messing up other users &/or apps.

Is there an equivalent of that content in Backus–Naur form?

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Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 15:40 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password "tv.debian@googlemail.com" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> - 2018-05-13 16:20 +0200
    Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 21:50 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-14 10:00 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-14 10:50 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-14 15:10 +0200
          Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 02:50 +0200
            Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-15 13:30 +0200
              Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-15 14:50 +0200
                Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-15 16:10 +0200
              Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-15 19:00 +0200
                Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 20:30 +0200
                Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-16 11:30 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password "John Crawley (johnraff)" <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-05-15 07:50 +0200
          Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-15 15:30 +0200
            Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-05-16 07:40 +0200
              Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-16 09:50 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-13 16:20 +0200
    Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 21:50 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 03:30 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-14 08:00 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-14 09:00 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-13 16:30 +0200
    Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-13 22:00 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-13 22:20 +0200
      Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-05-14 09:20 +0200
        Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-05-14 15:40 +0200
  Re: Running GParted and Synaptic without entering password Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-14 01:10 +0200

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