Re: getting loginctl to work

[Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>]

Hi,

Am 27.03.23 um 12:21 schrieb SeerLite:
> Hi! Is it maybe Polkit? Polkit was stopping me from suspending my laptop via SSH. The exact same behavior as you: no output and error code 1.
> 
> Since the only `loginctl` command I cared about was `suspend`, I added my user to the `power` group, added the `power` group to `operating-system`, defined the following extension:
> 
>      ; Rule template stolen from from gnu/services/desktop.scm: polkit-wheel
>      ; and rule itself stolen from https://askubuntu.com/a/992878
>      (define polkit-power-rules
>        (file-union
>         "polkit-power"
>         `(("share/polkit-1/rules.d/power.rules"
>            ,(plain-file
>              "power.rules"
>              "polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
>          if (action.id == \"org.freedesktop.login1.suspend\" &&
>              subject.isInGroup(\"power\")) {
>              return polkit.Result.YES;
>          }
>      });")))))
> 
> 
> and added the above to my services like:
> 
>      (simple-service 'polkit-power-rules polkit-service-type (list polkit-power-rules))
> 
> You'd have to do something but I'm guessing for `login1.poweroff` instead.

Thank you, that works. I think this kind of rule should be expected on 
most systems. It would be nice if this kind of polkit rule was 
predefined as a variable in guix, or the manual (or at least the 
cookbook) should give this as an example.