From: Michael Albinus via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 71969@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71969: [PATCH] Support interactive D-Bus authentication
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:52:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871q43xar1.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sewk9fz9.fsf@stebalien.com> (Steven Allen's message of "Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:21:30 +0200")
Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com> writes:
Hi Steven,
>>> Sorry about that. To restart the bluetooth service, execute:
>>>
>>> (dbus-call-method
>>> :system
>>> "org.freedesktop.systemd1" "/org/freedesktop/systemd1"
>>> "org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager" "RestartUnit"
>>> :authorize t
>>> "bluetooth.service" "replace")
>>>
>>> Assuming you have a polkit agent running (most DEs will run one by
>>> default, but agents like mate-polkit work pretty well standalone),
>>> you'll be prompted to authorize the operation and the bluetooth service
>>> will be restarted.
>>
>> Nice. I get an authorization prompt.
>>
>> However, on my Fedora 40 / Gnome 46 / systemd 255 system, it doesn't
>> matter, whether I use ':authorize t', ':authorize nil', or none of
>> them. Is interactive authorization enabled by default, and we don't need
>> to care about?
>
> It worked for me as well until a recent update (likely polkit 124 or
> systemd 256). I'm guessing one of these projects fixed a bug somewhere
> as it sounds like this flag should always have been required.
Hmm, I don't understand what you want to say.
Anyway, I believe we shall add this feature to Emacs only when we have
seen an example where it makes a difference.
Best regards, Michael.
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2024-07-06 7:53 bug#71969: [PATCH] Support interactive D-Bus authentication Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-06 11:54 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-06 14:53 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-06 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 15:24 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-07 11:53 ` Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-07 14:50 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-08 9:24 ` Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-08 12:29 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-08 12:50 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-08 13:21 ` Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-09 7:52 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-07-09 9:09 ` Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-09 12:10 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-09 15:45 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-09 19:28 ` Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-09 19:34 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-09 19:54 ` Steven Allen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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