Bug 1094138

Summary: Accounts Service polkit policy is desktop centric, prevents server usage
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stef Walter <stefw>
Component: accountsserviceAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-09-29 04:03:30 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1094121, 1091301, 1108258, 1140562, 1142154, 1144010, 1145747    
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Update to 0.6.38 release none

Description Stef Walter 2014-05-05 06:54:37 UTC 
Description of problem:

The shipped polkit policy is completely desktop-centric and expects that the admin user is logged in an active local session (ie: a seat in logind parlance, with a monitor and keyboard).

This prevents DBus API use when logged in via ssh (and using pkttyagent as your polkit agent) or via Cockpit.

The <allow_any> tag in polkit policy applies to non-local sessions. It should be set to something other than 'no' unless the action directly affects hardware of the login seat.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

accountsservice-0.6.35-4.fc20.x86_64
Comment 1 Stef Walter 2014-09-18 14:41:06 UTC 
Fixed upstream: 

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=74aa92e3f30deb455e1fe9b543ea8a8b12f82d8b
Comment 2 Stef Walter 2014-09-18 15:20:33 UTC 
Upstream 0.6.38 release contains fix for this.
Comment 3 Stef Walter 2014-09-18 15:49:13 UTC 
Created attachment 938967 [details]
Update to 0.6.38 release

 * Fix polkit policy rhbz#1094138
Comment 4 Stef Walter 2014-09-18 16:02:05 UTC 
f22 build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7616760
f21 build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7617377
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-09-26 08:36:33 UTC 
accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-09-27 09:51:27 UTC 
Package accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-11628/accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-09-29 04:03:30 UTC 
accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.