Bug 917888

Summary:	pkexec does not honour PAM environment set from PAM session hooks
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Component:	polkit	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	mitr
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Description Lennart Poettering 2013-03-05 02:59:00 UTC

If I invoke "pkexec /bin/bash" in my shell, then I find that $XDG_SESSION_ID and friends which are set via pam_systemd don't end up being set in the resulting shell. "su -" OTOH gets this right.

pkexec really should honour pam_getenvlist() and merge it into the subprocess' environment block. It should consider these environment variables which are set through PAM "trusted" and not apply any filtering on these (in contrast to those it might have inherited from the caller's environment block).

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2013-03-05 02:59:21 UTC

Also see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917887

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 16:21:21 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmač 2013-04-13 01:38:15 UTC

Thanks for your report.

Fixed by upstream https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62016 .

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-05-15 22:10:08 UTC

polkit-0.111-1.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/polkit-0.111-1.fc19

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-05-16 17:23:11 UTC

Package polkit-0.111-1.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing polkit-0.111-1.fc19'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-8364/polkit-0.111-1.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-05-28 02:17:15 UTC

polkit-0.111-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.