9.1 Available Policies and Supported Applications

At the moment, not all applications requiring privileges make use of PolicyKit. In the following the most important policies available on openSUSE® are listed.

PulseAudio
  • Set scheduling priorities for the PulseAudio daemon
CUPS
  • Add, remove, edit, enable or disable printers
GNOME
  • Modify system and mandatory values with GConf
  • Change the system time
PolicyKit
  • Read and change privileges for other users
  • Modify defaults
System
  • Wake on LAN
  • Mount or unmount fixed, hotplugable and encrypted devices
  • Enable or disable WLAN
  • Enable or disable Bluetooth
  • Device access
  • Stop and restart the system