Polkit authentication agent(s)

[cyntheticfox]

Description

I'm running into needing/wanting a graphical Polkit agent, but there's no current agents present in home-manager.

I've seen #2400 and am considering writing something based on that, though with the GNOME polkit as I'm running Sway, and other recommendations I've been given involved xdg-autostart (which is external state).

Could we re-open the mentioned PR, or should I draft a new one?

I'm currently just running

systemd.user.services.sway-polkit-authentication-agent = {
  Unit = {
    Description = "Sway Polkit authentication agent";
    Documentation = "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/";
    After = [ "graphical-session-pre.target" ];
    PartOf = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
  };

  Service = {
    ExecStart = "${pkgs.polkit_gnome}/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1";
    Restart = "always";
    BusName = "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority";
  };

  Install.WantedBy = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
};

Not sure if that BusName arg is needed...

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[zombiehoffa]

did this go anywhere? I see it still open.

[mobsenpai]

@rycee This should be added.

I am using this currently ->

{
  config,
  lib,
  pkgs,
  ...
}: {
  options = {
    myNixos.polkit-gnome.enable = lib.mkEnableOption "Enables polkit-gnome";
  };

  config = lib.mkIf config.myNixos.polkit-gnome.enable {
    security.polkit.enable = true;

    systemd.user.services.polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 = {
      description = "polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1";
      wantedBy = ["graphical-session.target"];
      wants = ["graphical-session.target"];
      after = ["graphical-session.target"];
      serviceConfig = {
        Type = "simple";
        ExecStart = "${pkgs.polkit_gnome}/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1";
        Restart = "on-failure";
        RestartSec = 1;
        TimeoutStopSec = 10;
      };
    };
  };
}

[mobsenpai]

did this go anywhere? I see it still open.

no sadly.

[sumnerevans]

@mobsenpai feel free to submit a PR with your changes.

[mobsenpai]

@sumnerevans I waited for someone experienced to do it first, because I haven't opened any PR but here you go! I know it's not at all a good PR, but I did what I could.

#5619

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[terlar]

Recent work happened in #5619 so not stale.