Bug 812779

Summary:	acct-user/geoclue: should be in "plugdev" group for app-misc/geoclue[modemmanager]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Maciej S. Szmigiero 2021-09-12 14:58:49 UTC

misc/geoclue[modemmanager] is currently broken, since geoclue is not allowed to talk to ModemManager:
> PolicyKit authorization failed: not authorized for 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.Device.Control'

Since "plugdev" group is allowed to control ModemManager the easy fix is to
simply add acct-user/geoclue user to this group.

Another option would be to write an appropriate PolicyKit rule for geoclue, like the one at [1].

[1]: https://git.bcbl.eu/smoia/euskalibur_container/-/blob/d9b2ad58b4a524758530d9d3480bb11cbc8c3257/pjmask.img/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/geoclue-2.0.rules

Comment 1 Maciej S. Szmigiero 2021-11-16 00:22:56 UTC

> Another option would be to write an appropriate PolicyKit rule for geoclue

Update: the required rule is now part of the upstream Geoclue:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/blob/master/data/org.freedesktop.GeoClue2.rules.in

Comment 2 Conrad Kostecki gentoo-dev

2022-07-09 22:39:54 UTC

(In reply to Maciej S. Szmigiero from comment #1)
> > Another option would be to write an appropriate PolicyKit rule for geoclue
> 
> Update: the required rule is now part of the upstream Geoclue:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/blob/master/data/org.
> freedesktop.GeoClue2.rules.in

This should be now the case, as 2.6.0 of geoclue is in tree, so closing now.