Ubuntu
policykit-1 package

  1. Bug #892680
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 892680

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Bruno Léon (bruno-leon) wrote :

It seems that the wrong username is passed to /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1.

I'm logged in as user bruno.leon (LDAP), but when I'm prompted to auth, what I can see in the process list is:
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 nono cookie4

nono being the local user on /etc/passwd with id 1000.

If I remove the user from /etc/passwd, then the process list shows:
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root cookie5

Looks like ubuntu is getting the username from somewhere (may be passwd... can't say for sure) when it should simply pass $USERNAME I think.