Re: Wheel group as polkit admins

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Leo,

Leo Prikler <address@hidden> skribis:

> From 42eedd4d9d64a8432f787e68d64476c59200c1b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Prikler <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:51:15 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] services: Add polkit-wheel-service.
>
> * gnu/services/desktop.scm: (polkit-wheel): New variable.
> (polkit-wheel-service): New service.
> ---
>  gnu/services/desktop.scm | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
> index 0152e86e8a..e58a08e068 100644
> --- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm
> +++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
> @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@
>              inputattach-configuration?
>              inputattach-service-type
>  
> +            polkit-wheel-service
> +
>              %desktop-services))
>  
>  ;;; Commentary:
> @@ -1064,6 +1066,25 @@ as expected.")))
>     (description "Return a service that runs inputattach on a device and
>  dispatches events from it.")))
>  
> +
> +;;;
> +;;; polkit-wheel-service
> +;;;
> +
> +(define polkit-wheel
> +  (file-union
> +   "polkit-wheel"
> +   `(("share/polkit-1/rules.d/wheel.rules"
> +      ,(plain-file
> +        "wheel.rules"
> +        "polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
> +    return [\"unix-group:wheel\"];
> +});
> +")))))
> +
> +(define polkit-wheel-service
> +  (simple-service 'polkit-wheel polkit-service-type (list polkit-wheel)))

Could you (1) add a comment saying what this does, like you did in the
second patch, and (2) document it in guix.texi, presumably right below
‘polkit-service’?

> From 1585513cc6d96e2f32a56850c9c26551a29d9f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Prikler <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:58:11 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] services: Add polkit-wheel-service to %desktop-services.
>
> * gnu/services/desktop.scm: (%desktop-services): Add polkit-wheel-service.

OK!

I’ll wait for your updated patch, thank you!

Ludo’.