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authorLeo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>2019-11-23 19:51:15 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-11-30 23:50:40 +0100
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services: Add polkit-wheel-service.
* gnu/services/desktop.scm: (polkit-wheel): New variable. (polkit-wheel-service): New service. * doc/guix.texi: Document polkit-wheel-service. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -15591,6 +15591,13 @@ 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
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} polkit-wheel-service
+Service that adds the @code{wheel} group as admins to the Polkit
+service. This makes it so that users in the @code{wheel} group are queried
+for their own passwords when performing administrative actions instead of
+@code{root}'s, similar to the behaviour used by @code{sudo}.
+@end defvr
+
@defvr {Scheme Variable} upower-service-type
Service that runs @uref{https://upower.freedesktop.org/, @command{upowerd}}, a
system-wide monitor for power consumption and battery levels, with the given