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

[jorgwel]

Is it possible to install accountsservice=0.6.40 in Ubuntu 14.04? I'm
having this bug in a machine which I am not authorized to upgrade to a
more recent version.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

> Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-04-29:#43

> @Alkis, right, the line changed was what you suggested in the upstream report 
> and in comment #33, 
> if that's incorrect/incomplete could you update the upstream report?


I'm sorry guys for some reason I wasn't getting notifications from this bug 
report, I've just commented on the upstream bug.

Glad to see this was fixed! Thanks!

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

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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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Bartosz Kosiorek]

** Tags removed: verification-needed
** Tags added: verification-done

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Daniel Richard G.]

Spurious dialog observed in remote X session on Xenial install with
accountservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu10.

Enabled xenial-proposed, installed accountservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu11, and
the dialog no longer appears.

I wasn't seeing this problem as badly as some other folks here, but for
my use case, the proposed fix is VERIFIED.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [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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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

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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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [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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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  * 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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Marc Deslauriers]

I can't think of any reason why having a session would be important in
this case, so I think changing allow_any to yes should be fine.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Sebastien Bacher]

I just discussed that with Robert the current rule is

  auth_self
  auth_self
  yes

the "allow_any" doesn't override the other ones, but active/inactive
apply to your local session when active/inactive, the any applies to non
local session (e.g ssh case), so the patch fixed the issue with local
locked session but not with ssh

letting any client do changes is relaxing a bit permissions but
shouldn't be an issue since it only concerns non sensitive datas
(locale, keyboard, etc), still I would like a security team comment
before doing the change  Marc, do you have an opinion there?

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Sebastien Bacher]

@Alkis, right, the line changed was what you suggested in the upstream
report and in comment #33, if that's incorrect/incomplete could you
update the upstream report?

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Salvo Isaja]

Still happening in 16.04.
My setup is based on Ubuntu Server, login via xrdp in an xfce4 session, Active 
Directory authentication enabled against a Windows Server 2003 PDC. The problem 
happens with both local users and Active Directory users, right after login.
Thank you.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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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[Touch-packages] [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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Title:
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Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
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  Confirmed
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Bug description:
  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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Radik]

** Changed in: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Radik (pro100rb)

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Title:
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  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

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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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

@desrt, isn't that explained in comment #33,
i.e. in 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1192300/comments/13
i.e. in patch 
https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290
 ?

SetXHasMessages is called by the accounts_notify() function that mterry
implemented.

I think what we can do in Ubuntu now, is to apply the patch, and if/when
upstream accepts it, to drop the .diff.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Allison Ryan Lortie]

Although I agree that it makes sense to allow the user to modify their
own data even if not "actively logged in", I think it would also be
interesting to track down the program that is the real source of this
problem.  ie: let's figure out which part of the session is writing to
accountsservice at random times...

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

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On 2016-04-11T17:14:30+00:00 Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:

Currently, data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy.in specifies that a user
must be active in order to set his own data.

X2go, LTSP etc users are considered remote, i.e. inactive, and they are not 
allowed to change their own user data without authentication.
This results in a different behaviour when they e.g. try to change their 
language in the `gnome-control-center user-accounts`.

Furthermore, in some distributions it has been observed that change-own-
user-data authentication dialogs popup when changing VTs or when
switching users or sometimes even with just gnome-screensaver, possibly
because the distribution is trying to update the user data (e.g. to
notify the UI that he has new mails) when the user's vt was not active.

Therefore I'd like to ask you to consider setting
yes for change-own-user-data.

Ubuntu bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1512002

Thanks!

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/1512002/comments/37


** Changed in: accountsservice
   Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: accountsservice
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Status in accountsservice:
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Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
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Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
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Bug description:
  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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[Touch-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

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** Tags added: patch

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice:
  Unknown
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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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[Touch-packages] [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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Title:
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Status in accountsservice:
  Unknown
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Here's another way to reproduce it:


$ 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

It doesn't make sense to have the user authenticate himself just to tell him he 
has new mail.
This affects gnome-screensaver, lightdm's user switching ability, X2go, LTSP 
etc.

Please replace the "auth_self" with "yes" as in the provided patch.

** Patch added: "change-own-user-data.patch"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1512002/+attachment/4632965/+files/change-own-user-data.patch

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Here is one method to see the dialog without working remotely:

sudo sed 's/yes/auth_self/' -i 
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy
Then press Alt+Ctrl+F2 to switch to vt2, and Alt+Ctrl+F7 to switch back to vt7.

After testing, to revert the change, run:
sudo sed 's/auth_self/yes/' -i 
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy


On LTSP thin clients, one can reproduce it by just changing VTs, without 
changing the accountsservice polkit files.

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
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Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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

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Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
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Bug description:
  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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[Touch-packages] [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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Bug description:
  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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