Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
policykit-1 is not aware of groups assigned by pam_group
Status in “policykit-1” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I'm using pam_group for my ldap users so that they get assigned default
ubuntu groups:
$ tail -n2 /etc/security/group.conf
# add LDAP users to these default groups, but don't give them admin rights.
"*;*;*;Al0000-2400;audio,video,cdrom,plugdev,fuse"
These additional group IDs are assigned correctly:
$ id
uid=6007(myusername) gid=6000(ldapgroup)
groups=6000(ldapgroup),24(cdrom),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),104(fuse)
Based on these additional groups, I'm trying to give certain user
groups the necessary permissions to execute program, using
policykit-1. Unfortunately, policykit does seem to only 'see' / 'be
aware' of the primary group that the user belongs to (and not those
additional groups that are assigend via /etc/security/group.conf).
This works (users can start the program):
[AllowUsertoDoSomething]
Identity=unix-group:ldapgroup
This doesn't work (users are asked to provide the administrator password):
[AllowUsertoDoSomething]
Identity=unix-group:plugdev
I suspect that this has something to do with the fact that 'id' does
return conflicting information about groups:
# call id without username, returns all groups, including the ones defined in
/etc/security/group.conf
$ id
uid=6007(myusername) gid=6000(ldapgroup)
groups=6000(ldapgroup),24(cdrom),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),104(fuse)
# call id with username, only ldap groups are returned, the ones defined in
/etc/security/group.conf are missing.
$ id myusername
uid=6007(myusername) gid=6000(ldapgroup) groups=6000(ldapgroup)
My suspicion is that policykit-1 is calling "id user" (or a similar command)
and "sees" only the main ldap groups.
I did not expect this behavior, because /etc/pam.d/polkit-1 does include
/etc/pam.d/common-auth (which includes the "auth optional pam_group.so" line)
This is Ubuntu 12.04.3 with all latest updates. Any help and
suggestions are appreciated.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04
$ apt-cache policy policykit-1
policykit-1:
Installed: 0.104-1ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 0.104-1ubuntu1.1
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
MarkForUpload: True
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: policykit-1 0.104-1ubuntu1.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-41.64~precise1-generic 3.5.7.21
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-41-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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