Description of problem: The realmd polkit policy is completely desktop-centric and expects that the user (admin or not) is logged in an active local session (ie: a seat in logind parlance, with a monitor and keyboard). This prevents admin (but non-root) use of realmd 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): realmd-0.14.6-4.fc20.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time.
realmd-0.14.6-5.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/realmd-0.14.6-5.fc20
Package realmd-0.14.6-5.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing realmd-0.14.6-5.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-8438/realmd-0.14.6-5.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
realmd-0.14.6-5.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.