I'm trying to get some user to start, stop and reload services by using the udev Upstart interface. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.
I created the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job.policy
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy
Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1.0/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>
<vendor>UXITIC</vendor>
<vendor_url>http://citius.usc.es/</vendor_url>
<icon_name>gdm</icon_name>
<action id="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job.Stop">
<_description>Stops a service</_description>
<_message>Privileges are required to stop a service.</_message>
<defaults>
<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
</defaults>
</action>
</policyconfig>
And also the corresponding authority file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/10-allow-users-to-start-and-stop-services.pkla
[Stop services]
Identity=unix-user:jorge
Action=com.ubuntu.Upstart_0.6.Job.Stop
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=auth_self
But when I try to stop a service, I get Access Denied :(
jorge$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=com.ubuntu.Upstart /com/ubuntu/Upstart/jobs/ssh com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job.Stop array:string:'' boolean:true
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.452" (uid=1021 pid=28234 comm="dbus-send) interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job" member="Stop" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init"))
