Re: [STUMP] Authentication agent under stumpwm - lxpolkit?

[Johnny]

I found one way to do the automounting without lxpolkit is to use udev
and autofs. 

In /etc/udev/95_custom.rules, add a rule that detects the device and
creates a symlink with a persistent name:
: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="07012Dd1fFaCg83a", SYMLINK+="my_usb"

In  /etc/auto.misc, define a rule to automount this
: my_usb        -fstype=auto            :/dev/my_pink

This automounts the usb when trying to access it (i.e. it's not visible
until accessing that folder).

Maybe not the best way, but an option that can probably be tweaked.

/Johnny

Servilio Afre Puentes <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:46:32 +0100, Johnny <address@hidden> wrote:
>> address@hidden (Diogo F. S. Ramos) writes:
>> 
>> > Johnny <address@hidden> writes:
>> >
>> >> Is there a better way to run an authentication agent under stumpwm? How
>> >> do other users do?
>> >
>> > I'm not entirely sure what an "authentication agent" is, but whenever I
>> > have to run something along with stumpwm, I put it in my ~/.xinit or
>> > start it from ~/.stumpwmrc.
>> >
>> > I even saw people running ssh-agent from ~/.xinit.
>> 
>> I don't understand the full workings, but basically an authentication
>> agent is used by an application to run as another user, e.g. in this
>> case I am running virt-manager as a normal user, and the authentication
>> agent (when running) pops up and lets me run the application by giving
>> root credentials.
>
> For what I've read it is a bit more granular than that: it just grants
> you access to a privilege application, without giving you the
> credentials needed for what the application will do.
>
>> Without this, virt-manager will not let me access the virtual
>> machines.
>> 
>> I could probably put the command in one of the init files, but I am sure
>> other users must have similar applications and wonder if there is a
>> better way to resolve authentication?
>
> I used run-prog for launching the GNOME PolicyKit agent:
>
> (run-prog "/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1"
>           :wait nil)
>
> I do the same with all the programs I choose to run from
> /etc/xdg/autostart.
>
> Servilio

-- 
Johnny