For some reason this is working now, after a reboot. Not entirely sure
what's changed, or why it wasn't working before. Resolving.
** Changed in: policykit-desktop-privileges (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1248249
Title:
regression: local admin not authorized for many tasks
Status in “policykit-desktop-privileges” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Similar reports to this were filed previously:
#1005643 & #1069234
While 1069234 was marked as a duplicate of 1005643, and 1005643 was
marked as resolved, this problem still exists with 13.10.
When attempting to mount any of my local volumes through a graphical
file manager (such as Thunar or Nautilus), I'm greeted with a dialog
like the following:
Failed to mount "keys".
Not authorized to perform operation.
When attempting to mount them from a command line I get the following:
$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/mmcblk0p1
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount ===
Authentication is required to mount MS (/dev/mmcblk0p1)
Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
1. Jamin Collins,,, (jcollins)
2. Jamin Collins,,, (jcollins)
Choose identity to authenticate as (1-2):
This is presumably because my user is in both the admin and sudo
groups. If I remove the user from the sudo group the prompt changes:
$ sudo deluser jcollins sudo
[sudo] password for jcollins:
Removing user `jcollins' from group `sudo' ...
Done.
$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/mmcblk0p1
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount ===
Authentication is required to mount MS (/dev/mmcblk0p1)
Authenticating as: Jamin Collins,,, (jcollins)
Password:
So, there are a couple of problems here. First is the fact that a
local admin is being prompted for authentication to mount local or
removable file systems. Second, that the authentication system can't
determine that accounts are, in fact, identical.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: policykit-desktop-privileges 0.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-32.47-generic 3.8.13.10
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 5 07:35:31 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2009-12-21 (1414 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: policykit-desktop-privileges
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-04 (0 days ago)
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