Blueman RfKill State

I made a clean install of Slackware64 14.2 on my laptop. I updated the system to the latest patches and when I logged in to Xfce I was presented with a weird dialogue window. Apparently it belongs to Blueman, telling me that “Setting RfKill State requires privileges”. Even when I enter my password, it would appear again upon every log in. Very annoying. However, the solution was recently discussed at LQ.

So, let’s get rid of this:

Following the instructions in post 12 by Skaendo, I created a file called 10-blueman.rules with the following contents:

/* Allow users in netdev group to use blueman feature requiring root without authentication */
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
    if ((action.id == "org.blueman.network.setup" ||
         action.id == "org.blueman.dhcp.client" ||
         action.id == "org.blueman.rfkill.setstate" ||
         action.id == "org.blueman.pppd.pppconnect") &&
        subject.isInGroup("netdev")) {
        return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
});

I placed it in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ and now the annoying dialogue is gone. My user is member of the lp and netdev groups. So far things seem to work fine, but I will follow the LQ thread and Slackware’s ChangeLog for further development on the topic. Maybe the issue will be fixed in -current (and -stable) pretty soon?