[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

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This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu11

---
accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu11) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
- updated to use allow_any=yes to avoid displaying unndeed dialog for
  remote sessions as well, thanks Alkis Georgopoulos
  (lp: #1512002)

 -- Sebastien Bacher   Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:15:39
+0200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Martin Pitt]

Hello brainsail, or anyone else affected,

Accepted accountsservice into xenial-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/0.6.40-2ubuntu11 in
a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Also affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** No longer affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Xenial)

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

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This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu12

---
accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu12) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
- updated to use allow_any=yes to avoid displaying unndeed dialog for
  remote sessions as well, thanks Alkis Georgopoulos
  (lp: #1512002)

 -- Sebastien Bacher   Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:15:39
+0200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Sebastien Bacher]

** Changed in: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Description changed:

+ * Impact
+ 
+ Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
+ data" prompts are displayed
+ 
+ * Test case
+ 
+ 
+ $ ssh -X localhost
+ $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
+ $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true
+ 
+ that shouldn't trigger a prompt
+ 
+ * Regression potential
+ 
+ it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
+ shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working
+ 
+ 
+ --
+ 
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

@seb128, thanks for releasing the fix, but it appears that not all the patch 
from comment #36 was applied:
-  auth_self
-  auth_self
+  yes
+  yes

 is still "auth_self" in accountsservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu10,
and I think that it takes priority over , so the problem
still persists and can be reproduced as described in comment #36.

Could you please re-release the fix while applying the whole patch?
Thank you!

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Released => Triaged

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

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This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu10

---
accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu10) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
- let inactive user sessions update their own datas without
  triggering authentification dialogs. Indicator-messages does that to
  indicate to the greeter that the user received messages, which
  currently leads to auth dialog to be stacked in the locked session,
  thanks Alkis Georgopoulos (lp: #1512002)

 -- Sebastien Bacher   Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:23:47
+0200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #94895
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94895

** Also affects: accountsservice via
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94895
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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[Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

mterry, charlesk, I took the liberty of subscribing you because I think it 
involves this commit:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290

The issue is happening to me as well, on Ubuntu 16.04 gnome-flashback, in 2 
cases:
1) sometimes when I try to unlock the screensaver,
2) sometimes when I login via ltsp thin/fat clients.

I think the problem is the one mentioned by khadgaray in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-
messages/+bug/1192300.

I.e. that the system is trying to notify us if we have new mails etc,
and that for some reason(s) it's considering us an "inactive user"
(inactive means not in the active screen of the pc, either remote or in
a screensaver etc) and thus we need authentication.

The necessary rights are defined in this file:
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy

  
...

  auth_self
  auth_self
  yes

...

I think that if we change "auth_self"
to "yes",
we'll have a temporary workaround to the problem.

But the real issue is, should the system consider us "inactive" in the screen 
saver?
Should it consider us inactive in ltsp thin clients that are remote sessions?
Should it consider us inactive in ltsp fat clients where accountsservice 
doesn't have information about the remote user account? (similar with ldap)

If the answer to the above is yes, then maybe the workaround that I
mentioned above should be committed to accountsservice?

** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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