Description of problem: The polkit-gnome-authorization GUI doesn't show all the users you granted to do specific actions. They don't appear in the Explicit Authorizations list. And of course when you try to grant a user which has already been granted you have this error: ** (polkit-gnome-authorization:3362): WARNING **: Error granting auth: AuthorizationAlreadyExists: An authorization for uid 501 for the action org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users with constraint '' already exists Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PolicyKit-gnome-0.8-4.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Static. Only the current user seems to appear, even root can't see the existing policies for all the users. Steps to Reproduce: 1. run polkit-gnome-authorization 2. grant some users on a specific action Actual results: Explicit Authorizations doesn't list anything but your current user granted authorisation. Expected results: Explicit Authorizations should list users granted on the specific action. Additional info: If it's not a bug, how or which user is allowed to manage the policies for all the users? Files /var/lib/PolicyKit/user-xxx.auths are perfectly created by the GUI, and the policies seem to apply.
There is a checkbox "Show authorizations for all users" below the list. You need to check that to see all grants. You have a point about the warning though.
ok, so the problem was: I need more coffee :)