Bug 2055956

Proposed as a Blocker for 36-final by Fedora user chrismurphy using the blocker tracking app because:

 All elements of the default panel (or equivalent) configuration in all release-blocking desktops must function correctly in typical use. 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Final_Release_Criteria#Default_panel_functionality

I'm not sure "eventually functions correctly" gives this a pass.

The decision to classify this bug as a "RejectedBlocker (Beta)" was made based off votes here: [0]

[0] https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/618

The decision to classify this bug as a "RejectedBlocker (Final)" was made based off votes here: [0]

[0] https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/618

I also have the same problem.
I can reproduce always the behavior when switching between users on my machine.
I.E. if I activate the switch user option - which suspends the current user and activates a different one, when I come back to the original user I am requested, after the login authentication, to perform one or more authentications depending, I suppose, on the number of applications running.

Note: this behaviour started since I upgraded to Fedora 35. I don't remember this behaviour with the previous release.

Created attachment 1934498 [details]
Screenshot: Authentication Required - Authentication is required to update metadata

I am also running multiple user sessions on one machine, and also get an unrequested modal dialog asking for my password, without any hint as to who needs that password for what and why it is asking for that password at that time.

It appears there are sometimes more than one of those password prompting dialogs, and the actually active one is not always the one which is displayed, so a bit of trickery is sometimes required to close that dialog.

It is also sometimes fun to find on which monitor the dialog is displayed, but at least when there is more than one of these modal dialogs, I think I cannot remember them being on different monitors.

I cannot verify whether the dialog I see is the same one as referred to in this bug, because the original reporters' external links to screenshot images do not work, so I have attached a screenshot of what I am seeing.

This occurs on an up to date F37 system right now, but I cannot remember when it started.

In any case, a UI which asks for a password without any user interaction preceding that password prompt, and without any hint as to which software is actually asking for that password and why **is a security issue**.

I am not even certain whether gnome-shell is the proper software component to file this against.

Anyway, here are my versions of the two software packages mentioned above, in case they are involved:

    gnome-shell-43.2-1.fc37.x86_64
    gnome-software-43.2-1.fc37.x86_64

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I had that modal dialog a few days ago on my up to date F38 system, so this does not appear to have been fixed yet.

In case it matters:

    gnome-shell-44.1-1.fc38.x86_64
    gnome-software-44.1-1.fc38.x86_64

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