how to disable PolicyKit?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:42:49PM +0200, Oron Peled wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 בOctober 2009 16:40:47 Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > On Friday 30 October 2009 01:40:07 Oron Peled wrote:
> > > > I rather hate NetworkManager, too ;-). However, from
> > > > the system point of view, I'd naively expect hal, udev, dbus, network,
> > > > etc. to work without a "policy kit" developed by GUI people (I
> > > > understand it comes from Gnome).
> 
> Please try to cut the lines better next time. It looks like I said
> the above paragraph, while in reality it was Oleg...
> 
> > > However, you are correct that it's easy to see its GNOME origins. There
> > > is no command line client. This is not because the design is bad
> > > or architectural limitations --- nobody bothered writing one yet.
> 
> > You can try wicd, I tested it under Debian and it was "pretty good". I don't 
> > know how it will break Fedroa by killing NetworkManager and installing wicd
> 
> What does it have to do with the subject?
> 
> We discussed PolicyKit, integration with NetworkManager, lack of good
> command line integration and how bad is running big program stacks
> (GUI) as suid programs:
>   1. wicd is a GUI program (it uses GTK).

wicd does not rely on the gnome keyring and hence needs no GUI to run.

>   2. Like many similar older programs, there's no NetworkManager integration.
>   3. Therefore they all need to run as root (via suid/sudo/kdesu/etc)

Like WhatEverCapitalKit, wicd's client connects with the daemon through
dbus and does not require sudo.

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