Bug 19394

Summary:	6_rc0: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings has no root password pop up
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Bit Twister <bittwister2>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	jani.valimaa
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	?	CVE:
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Description Bit Twister 2016-09-17 11:07:23 CEST

Description of problem:

6_rc0: xfce4-settings-manager has no root password pop up when selecting 
LightDM GTK+Greeter settings.

If design is not to allow user to supply root password, then there should be a message or something instead of doing nothing when you click the LightDM GTK+Greeter selection.


journalctl snippet:

 polkitd[3779]: Operator of unix-process:17608:5882772 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action com.ubuntu.pkexec.lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings for unix-process:17608:5882772 [/bin/sh /usr/bin/lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings-pkexec] (owned by unix-user:bittwister)

 pkexec[17609]: bittwister: Error executing command as another user: Not authorized [USER=root] [TTY=unknown] [CWD=/home/bittwister] [COMMAND=/usr/bin/lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings]

 polkitd[3779]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:17608:5882772 (system bus name :1.283, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. as user, not root, click up a terminal
2. xfce4-settings-manager->LightDM GTK+Greeter settings

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2016-09-20 11:23:55 CEST

I can't reproduce. There should be polkit agent (mate-polkit) already installed, pulled by xfce4-session, which handles password query.

Also, lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings is its own program, not related to xfce4-settings-manager other way than that it just shows lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings icon.

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
Summary: 6_rc0: xfce4-settings-manager has no root password pop up => 6_rc0: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings has no root password pop up
Source RPM: xfce4-settings-4.12.1-1.mga6.src.rpm => ?

Comment 2 Bit Twister 2016-09-20 12:39:51 CEST

I am sorry for wasting your time. Problem was self induced.
I had disabled the startup mate-polkit service since I was running xfce.
I re-enabled it, logged out/in and it now prompts for root pw.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED