Bug 520824

Summary:	No auth agent is started by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc>
Component:	polkit-gnome	Assignee:	David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	davidz, dfediuck, kevin, mclasen
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Description Jiri Moskovcak 2009-09-02 15:07:57 UTC

Description of problem:
XFCE doesn't start any authorization agent.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.6.1-2

How reproducible:
I've installed rawhide without in minimal install (without any graphical environments) and later decided to $ yum groupinstall XFCE - and there was no auth agent running, so apps like PackageKit are not able to show the PolicyKit auth window. I had to manually run /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1. Or is there any xfce-auth-manager that I forgot to install?

Actual results:
polkit auth window doesn't appear when user needs to escalate his privileges

Expected results:
Auth window appears when it's needed

Additional info:
Adding some auth agent to xfce autostart could fix (or workaround) this.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2009-09-02 16:43:45 UTC

This is due to /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
having: 

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;

Possible fixes: 

1) Just add 'XFCE;' in there. 

2) Just remove the OnlyShowIn line entirely. Are there any other polkit agents that exist and are used currently? 

Moving over to polkit-gnome for comment...

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2009-09-03 03:20:05 UTC

I removed the line