Re: [gdm-list] Fixes for ConsoleKit and GDM 2.21 for Solaris

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Matthias:

> > In short, PolicyKit integration into Solaris is a long way off.  GDM's
> > dependency on PolicyKit is very light.  For now, I would appreciate
> > if we could live with a little "RBAC pollution" in GDM because it will make
> > it much easier for me to support the GDM rewrite effort.
>
> Sorry, pollution was a bad choice of word on my part.

No worries.  I think we should leave it up to Jon to decide.  Personally, I
think it makes sense for ConsoleKit and GDM to support both for now.

> What I meant is that it would be good to avoid a situation where we
> have parallel PolicyKit and RBAC code paths in a lot of modules,
> long-term.

Indeed.  I agree 100%.  In fact, I pushed really hard to get Sun engineers
working on PolicyKit in the first place.

> But I understand that it will take some time before PK gets through
> the Sun processes; working together to ensure that PK can nicely play
> together with RBAC is probably the best we can do in the meantime.

Agreed.  Also, there is probably a need for a handful of applications
(such as ConsoleKit/GDM) to support PolicyKit and RBAC directly until
PK matures to the point that it can be integrated into Solaris.  I
think this will happen, but it is a matter of time.

Brian