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policykit-1 version 0.105-17

I cannot seem to make the policykit rule work. All I want is to let anyone be able to run systemctl daemon-reload in the system (for test purposes).

I found the action name for this task from the file org.freedesktop.systemd1.policy as org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon. I have dropped in a simple rule as following:

/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/01-umut.rules

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
        if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.systemd1.reload-daemon") {
                    return polkit.Result.YES;
            }
});

I am expecting this rule to allow anyone run this action but that is not the case.

I have run policykit form the command line as sudo /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd and used polkit.log("Hello my rule"); in my rule just to see if the rule ever gets executed and no luck there either.

What am I missing?

Umut
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If PolKit version < 0.106, there are no .rules files but only old .pkla and .conf files.

You can check version of Polkit by: pkaction --version

mja
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Seems like the version I am using has a bug. I have switched to 0.113-5 version on debian and it worked like charm.

Umut
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