Bug 539647 - root authentication fails when user is desktop_admin_r
Summary: root authentication fails when user is desktop_admin_r
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: polkit
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-20 19:06 UTC by Christoph Wickert
Modified: 2013-03-06 03:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-11-20 21:24:27 UTC
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Description Christoph Wickert 2009-11-20 19:06:04 UTC
Description of problem:
After adding my user to the desktop_admin_r group, root authentication via polkit no longer works

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
polkit-0.95-0.git20090913.3.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. useradd -G desktop_admin_r chris
2. pkexec somecommand
  
Actual results:
Password dialog insists on a wrong password although it was entered correctly.

Expected results:
Adding a user to an additional group should not result in a spurious password error. It must still be possible to get additional privileges after provding the pw. If this is not yet implemented, I suggest to remove the esktop_admin_r group to avoid confusion.

Comment 1 Christoph Wickert 2009-11-20 21:24:27 UTC
There was another user still in the desktop_admin_r group, but the authentication dialog didn't show the dropdown to select the user. After restarting polkitd everything works as expected, so I close this NOTABUG.


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