In fedora 11 someone posted this wondrous tidbit of wisdom which made my
life much simpler:
edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
Add this stuff inside the config tag:
<config version="0.1">
<match user="root">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</config>
That says the answer to any policykit question about what root can
do is "yes dammit!"
There is no such file in fedora 12, and no policykit files I look
at even appear to use xml anymore.
Anyone know how to teach policykit that root is by God root (or know
if that is finally the sane default now)?