Bug 840173

Summary:	policy kit trys to authenticate inappropriate user
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	davidz, extras-orphan, maxamillion, notting, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description D. Hugh Redelmeier 2012-07-14 05:05:10 UTC

Description of problem:
Under gnome, when I run system-config-firewall (and other things needing privilege), I am prompted for a password for a different user!

The first user created on the system was a dummy. I then created a real user and always use it. When prompted for privilege escalation, I get asked for the dummy user's password.

In most cases, if I typed in the dummy user's password, things worked. But policykit should have authenticated against current user, not the dummy user.

I fixed this by deleting the dummy user.

Before I fixed this, system-config-firewall could not perform the "apply" function and would eat all of one CPU core, leaving X to eat another core (on a 4 core system). Once it got into this state, it would not quit. This looks like a system-config firewall bug.

Summary: the bug in PolicyKit (or perhaps PolicyKit-gnome) is that it tries to authenticate the wrong user.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
polkit-desktop-policy-0.102-3.fc16.noarch
polkit-qt-0.103.0-1.fc16.x86_64
polkit-gnome-0.104-2.fc16.x86_64
polkit-kde-0.99.0-3.fc16.x86_64
polkit-0.102-3.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time, until I deleted the user

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a dummy user when installing fedora 16
2.create a new system user
3.as the new user, run system-config-firewall

Actual results:
prompted to authenticate dummy user

Expected results:
prompted to authenticate new user

Additional info:
How do I know policy kit is involved? If I decline to authenticate, I get an error message
"org.fedoraproject.slip.dbus.service.PolKit.NotAuthorizedException.org.fedoraproject.config.firewall.auth: "
Not too user friendly.

There is a slight chance this is related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733303

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-07-16 16:02:11 UTC

Are both you and your dummy user marked as administrators?

Comment 2 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2012-07-16 18:33:23 UTC

Yes, we were both marked as administrators.

Under the covers, how is that represented?  Does that involve group membership (wheel?) or some other mechanism?

Comment 3 D. Hugh Redelmeier 2012-07-16 21:46:07 UTC

For an unrelated reason, I'm looking in .xsession-errors (the whole file should be in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770582>).

I see a few of these.  Seems relevant, but there are no timestamps so who knows.

      JS LOG: polkitAuthenticationAgent: Received 2 identities that can be used for authentication. Only considering the first one.

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