As non-admin you can't chown to another user

[jelly]

We should not shown this option if you aren't superuser.

[allisonkarlitskaya]

I wonder if there's some polkit API we can hit to do this...

[jelly]

I wonder if there's some polkit API we can hit to do this...

This only happens when you drop "privileges" but hmm. Maybe.

[martinpitt]

See cockpit-project/cockpit#11033 and cockpit-project/cockpit#20283 - in general, predicting this with polkit is difficult 😢

[jelly]

I would like to replicate the behavior of polkit as likely happens in gnome-files but for the first version I think it is more realistic to hide this option.

[jelly]

Using polkit implies using pkexec or do we ship our own rules?

I can't get pkexec to do work for me, while this works fine in a normal GNOME session.

[admin@fedora-40-127-0-0-2-2201 ~]$ pkexec
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ====
Authentication is needed to run `/bin/bash' as the super user
Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
 1.  Administrator (admin)
 2.  fedora Cloud User (fedora)
Choose identity to authenticate as (1-2): 1
Password: 
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie

This seems to depend on a polkit-agent being available, and none of the options seem to be justifiable to install on a server https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit#Authentication_agents

[jelly]

The bug was fixed, closing this as changing permissions now works based on if superuser.allowed which is not the polkit case but that is a bigger issue within Cockpit.