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policykit-1 package

  1. Bug #439552
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 439552

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Andreas Sandberg (andysan) wrote : Re: Policykit authentication dialog not responsive to clicks on the 'Authenticate' button

I played around a bit with policykit and it seems like the polkit backend uses org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixUser to get the UID (not the EUID!) of the caller. I don't know what the cleanest solution would be, but adding setuid(0) to works for me (see patch).