On 11/10/18 9:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 11/11/18 1:08 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 11/10/18 9:00 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 11/11/18 12:48 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>>> That is a good workaround. Or just wait for the Xfce Policy Kit to prompt.
>>>
>>> But they should be able to be started under certain conditions
>>> by regular users Saned for instance.
>>
>> I've not used that service. But, 2 things....
>>
>> I don't know who your users are, but you may not want to give them blanket
privileges to
>> run systemctl
>>
>> Is the service a "resource hog" such that it will impact system
performance if it is just
>> started normally at boot?
>>
>
> If you try to set it up to start at boot, you get:
>
>
> # systemctl enable geoclue
> The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy, RequiredBy, Also, Alias
> settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance for template units).
> This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
> Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
> 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
> .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
> 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
> a requirement dependency on it.
> 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
> D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
> 4) In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
> instance name specified.
>
> So it is suppose to fire up and die.
>
> I that with saned, that you can give certain services start up rights
> to users
>
It seems that geoclue isn't meant to be started directly but by an application
needing
geolocation services.
An example of this is "redshift". If you run "redshift" it will then
start
/usr/libexec/geoclue and the user will get a prompt on the desktop to say if they want
the
application to have access to the system's location.
I don't use saned and don't know if it is intended to be geolocation aware.
Funny you should say redshift, as that is the app I am having
issues with. Redshift works perfectly if I start geoclue
as root.
Redshift does give me that prompt, them I get a message that
there was a permission issue with geoclue2