[BRLTTY] auth server refuses to start if built without polkit
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Thu Jul 6 10:08:04 EDT 2017
[quoted lines by Chris Brannon on 2017/07/06 at 06:26 -0700]
>The only thing you lose, and I am not sure it's necessarily a loss, is
>fallback methods.
>Scenario: brltty is configured to use polkit+keyfile for
>authentication. In this scenario, polkit support was built, so we won't
>hit the bug I reported yesterday. The polkit method descriptor
>initializes just fine. But for whatever reason, polkit authentication
>doesn't work on the user's system. We could still fall back to keyfile.
Sure, and my propsoed scheme doesn't lose tht at all. I never said we just try
the first one. We go through them all in sequence, and, as soon as one works,
we return its handle to the caller.
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