#!/usr/bin/env python # Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc. # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either # version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General # Public License along with this library; if not, write to the # Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, # Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # # Author: David Zeuthen # Simple example showing how to access the Authority via D-Bus calls # import dbus bus = dbus.SystemBus() proxy = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1', '/org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority') authority = dbus.Interface(proxy, dbus_interface='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority') system_bus_name = bus.get_unique_name() subject = ('system-bus-name', {'name' : system_bus_name}) action_id = 'org.freedesktop.policykit.exec' details = {} flags = 1 # AllowUserInteraction flag cancellation_id = '' # No cancellation id result = authority.CheckAuthorization(subject, action_id, details, flags, cancellation_id) print result