Ok so the issue is actually one with Polkit not having policy set for non-local sessions, which this particular situation was. I was connecting from NoMachine (kind of like VNC) which uses ssh for authentication, so polkit was treating the same as trying to run flatpak from ssh. My "solution" was to append /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.pkla with: ResultAny=yes
This allows non-local sessions to follow the rule set -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847339 Title: Polkit asking for password repeatedly when installing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flatpak/+bug/1847339/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
