Description of problem: The shipped polkit policy is completely desktop-centric and expects that the admin user is logged in an active local session (ie: a seat in logind parlance, with a monitor and keyboard). This prevents DBus API use 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): accountsservice-0.6.35-4.fc20.x86_64
Fixed upstream: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/commit/?id=74aa92e3f30deb455e1fe9b543ea8a8b12f82d8b
Upstream 0.6.38 release contains fix for this.
Created attachment 938967 [details] Update to 0.6.38 release * Fix polkit policy rhbz#1094138
f22 build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7616760 f21 build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7617377
accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21
Package accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-11628/accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
accountsservice-0.6.38-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.