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authorBruno Victal <mirai@makinata.eu>2023-02-25 18:58:04 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2023-03-03 17:55:34 +0100
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services: dbus: Deprecate 'polkit-service' procedure.
* doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Replace 'polkit-service' with 'polkit-service-type'. * gnu/services/dbus.scm (polkit-service): Deprecate procedure. * gnu/tests/docker.scm (%docker-os): Use polkit-service-type. * gnu/tests/virtualization.scm (%libvirt-os): Ditto. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -23440,16 +23440,20 @@ The value for this service is a file-like object, by default it is
set to @code{accountsservice} (the package object for AccountsService).
@end defvar
-@deffn {Scheme Procedure} polkit-service @
- [#:polkit @var{polkit}]
-Return a service that runs the
-@uref{https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/, Polkit privilege
+@defvar polkit-service-type
+Type for the service that runs the
+@url{https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/, Polkit privilege
management service}, which allows system administrators to grant access to
privileged operations in a structured way. By querying the Polkit service, a
privileged system component can know when it should grant additional
capabilities to ordinary users. For example, an ordinary user can be granted
the capability to suspend the system if the user is logged in locally.
-@end deffn
+
+The value for this service is a @code{<polkit-configuration>} object.
+@end defvar
+
+@c TODO: Document <polkit-configuration>, preferably by refactoring this to use
+@c define-configuration and generating documentation from it.
@defvar polkit-wheel-service
Service that adds the @code{wheel} group as admins to the Polkit