sandsmark / polkit-dumb-agent

a polkit agent in 145 lines of code, because polkit is dumb and none of the other agents worked

polkit-dumb-agent

polkit is dumb, and never works.

so here is probably the simplest version you can have (except the first one that just ACKed every call), 97 lines of C++ and 45 lines of C, in total 142 lines of code.

it just uses kdesu to call a helper as root to send the reply, so all requests requires the user to enter the root password.

TODO

Write a simple replacement for polkit itself, it's a simple dbus API and 90% of what it provides is never used.

Requirements

• C++ compiler
• Qt5 (dbus and widgets)
• kdesu