What happened to PolicyKit?

Posted by Jo-Erlend Schinstad on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Published on 2012-12-07T23:51:30Z Indexed on 2012/12/09 23:44 UTC
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Back in 8.04 or so, when PolicyKit was new, we had a GUI "browser" that enabled us to easily decide things like whether a user should be allowed to shutdown the system when other users were logged in and if it should always be allowed or only while on the console, etc.

Then those things suddenly disappeared and though it seems PolicyKit is still in use, I haven't been able to find any similar GUI to actually configure the policies. What happened?

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