FS#31717 - [polkit] auth_admin authentication fails if user not in wheel group

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Friday, 28 September 2012, 14:27 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Saturday, 29 September 2012, 12:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Please apply this commit to our polkit package: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=fa04223240d46641b0773dbf9f7d72f529046bea

Most things which are secured by polkit are broken with 0.107, e.g. date, printer and user settings in gnome-control-center. Fedora and Gentoo have patched this already.
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Saturday, 29 September 2012, 12:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  polkit 0.107-4, in [gnome-unstable]
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Saturday, 29 September 2012, 12:12 GMT
Shouldn't root be in the wheel group? It is in there by default.

Anyway, adding the patch to polkit in gnome-unstable.

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