Questions tagged [policykit]
Now called polkit, it's an OS component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems.
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Shutdown not working for Users logged in through winbind
I have a Samba server acting as AD/DC and a client authenticating against it.
Domain Users can log in and out just fine, shutdown and restart does not work.
For Local Users shutdown and restart works....
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Thunar is unable to mount/unmount partitions correctly
I've got a "NTFS" partition on my Ubuntu machine which I use it to share files between my Ubuntu and Windows.
The problem is that I'm not able to mount it using my file manager, the error is:
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Authentication required before suspend
Since the last update of Ubuntu 14.04, when I press the sleep button in my laptop, a pop-up window appears with "Authentication is required for suspending the system".
Password is not requested when ...
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polkit inactive session action/rules never come into effect
I have different issues with polkit not working at all for inactive sessions. Because I think they share the same issue i will post one example first.
I have a fresh ubuntu-server 14.04 with lubuntu-...
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PolicyKit rules never come into effect
I'm trying to write a new .rules file for PolicyKit. My test attempt (in the directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/) looks like this:
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
polkit.spawn(["rm","/...
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Location of PolicyKit log output
I'm trying to debug a new PolicyKit rule that looks like this:
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
polkit.log("action=" + action);
polkit.log("subject=" + subject);
if (action.id ==...
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Where can I discover what policies can be set via PolicyKit?
PolicyKit can be used to implement a variety of rules, including:
controlling shutdown/restart rights
disabling/enabling hibernation
controlling network configuration rights
and so on.
I'd like to ...
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GUI anthentication doesn't work. No privileges
This is on Xubuntu 14.04 64-bit
After a forced restart (due to nvidia overheating) I noticed that no sound was playing, and in fact pulseaudio showed only dummy devices. While looking for a solution, ...
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Lubuntu 14.04: fatal GDBus Error upon session login
Two days ago I freshly installed a Lubuntu Desktop 14.04 on an old Centrino M with 2 accounts: uid 1000 (administrator) and uid 1001 (general user)
Until an hour ago all was well. Then shortly ...
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How to get GUI sudo password prompt without command line?
Currently, for all my commands that require root access, I have to type them out on a command line.
I would like for the GUI to prompt me to key in my password, when sudo is required, instead of ...
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Not able to authenticate during sofware installation
When I try to install a package through Software Centre, an authentication window pops up.
The authentication window is like this:
But the window disappears immediately and I am not able to ...
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How to know if a authenticate box is real or fake?
For example, someone creates a fake Authenticate dialog to get my root password. How to know if it is real or fake?
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how to do administartive tasks from remote X SSH
I forwarded X over ssh. From unity-control-center I couldn't perform any of the administrative tasks like changing audio input, changing wifi network etc. How can I do them remotely. Its the same ...
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How to disable shutdown/reboot from lightdm in 14.04?
In 12.04 it was possible to prevent system shutdown or reboot from the login screen by adding the following restrictions in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (adapted from here):
[Disable ...
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Can't install software due to "Authentication service is not available" error
Yesterday I installed Lubuntu 14.04 alternative iso on an old XP laptop. The partition and install went well. There are, however some issues with security, or my ability to add users and software. I ...
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Hibernate missing in login screen
Re-enabling hibernation by adding a rule to policy kit added the option to hibernate to the desktop session as expected, but not for the login screen.
How can I enable hibernation right from the ...
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How to Change the message from policykit authentication agent?
In Policykit the LocalAuthority component checks whether the action requested from PolicyKit is allowed.
Its decision takes into account the user accounts and groups that exist locally on the ...
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Software Center prompts password of another user
I have a krb5-ldap user in an "administrators" which is added to sudoers list as follows:
%administrators ALL=(ALL) ALL
Now that works fine for all sudo operations.
But when that user wants to ...
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Give domain users administrator account or access to software center
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a couple of machines. The domain is running Windows.
I have managed to add machines in domain with likewise-open and give sudo access to domain groups.
Problem is ...
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Permission issues causes Unity Segmentation fault
I upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10 and I can boot to the unity-greeter and login just fine, but after login I just get a black screen with a cursor. I have tried following
http://help.ubuntu.com/...
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pkexec can not start any GUI application
I am running Ubuntu 13.04, Gnome 3.6.
There is something amiss with pkexec that is not allowing it to start any gui application.
pkexec synaptic in a zsh terminal produces a box asking for admin ...
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How can I prevent close session/shutdown/reboot when certain console program is executing?
I want to disable close session/shutdown/reboot from Gnome (Unity/Lightdm) when lftp is executing.
Is there any way? Perhaps with polkit?
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Can't mount USB devices, shut down etc. as a user
I tried gnome3 and gnome3-staging ppas to test running Gnome 3.8. After a while I decided that Gnome 3.8 wasn't for me, so I did a ppa-purge of both the ppas. As described in gnome3-staging ppa page,...
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lost right as administator
I have 12.04 freshly installed in my laptop. Recently I lost my rights as administrator. Hereare the problems:
unable to do updates from Update Manager (though no problem if I do it from terminal).
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policykit-desktop-privilege - rules not in effect
my xubuntu installation asks me for my password everytime I try to mount/umount/update software ... all the things that policykit-desktop-privilege should grant me. The user is in both admin and sudo ...
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Where is the KDE PolicyKit Authorization manager in Kubuntu? [closed]
In order to be able to answer this question, I was looking for a way to manage PolicyKit in KDE. Using Google I quickly ran into the KDE's official Authorization manager (mentioned here and here in ...
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How can non-admin users connect to Wi-Fi networks?
I'm trying to configure PolicyKit so that other users are allowed to configure Wi-Fi connections, but my changes don't seem to bring any results at all.
When a non-admin user tries to connect to a ...
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What happened to the graphical PolicyKit settings?
Back in 8.04 or so, when PolicyKit was new, we had a GUI "browser" that enabled us to easily decide things like whether a user should be allowed to shutdown the system when other users were logged in ...
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Allow user to upgrade installed packages
My users don't have administrative privileges. I don't allow them to install packages from Ubuntu repositories but they must be able to install all updates availables from Ubuntu repositories and my ...
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Access to NTFS partition WITH authentication
xubuntu allows by default the mounting of an ntfs partition without requesting any kind of authorization.
How can I force it to request authorization (fhe same way that synaptic requires authorization ...
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How to make Ubuntu ask for password when mounting partitions?
I have been through this kind of feature in older versions of Ubuntu. When I'd like to mount a partition it will ask me a password. Now I want to enable that kind of feature in Ubuntu 12.04.
How can ...
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Are console and gnome applications using different sudoers file ?
According to our office Admin rules, developer's machines should not have admin privilege, which i hated so much. so I decided to enable the sudo access with some work around found in web (booting ...
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Policykit - E17 without LightDm: Problems with Webcam and Connection manager [duplicate]
I'm using E17 without LightDm ( it saves about 200 mb ram ).
I manage to do that easily and now I'm starting E17 with the old nice startx and a .xinit file in my home root.
my .xinit :
exec dbus-...
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polkit: disable all users except those in group wheel?
Is it possible to do the following using 1 polkit .pkla file?
Disable all users except those in the wheel group from using polkit.
The users in the wheel group will need to provide the root password ...
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pkexec won't launch polkit GUI in Lubuntu / LXDE
I performed a fresh install of Lubuntu 12.04 with minimal desktop, as described here.
To clarify, I did a command-line install from the Lubuntu alternative install disc, then I did an apt-get install ...
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Root tasks using dbus and policykit
At some point my application needs to do administrative tasks like creating a file in /etc or running commands with root priveleges.
I know just could do a Q&D:
os.popen("pkexec foo bar")
But I ...
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How can I authenticate Ubuntu Software Center with user password?
I would like to be able to use the password associated with this account to install packages with the GUI. Ideally, I would change the settings so that any user with sudo permissions could install ...
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Disable suspend / hibernate via the policykit
I am trying to run Lubuntu 12.04, but if the computer suspends I am unable to bootup again.
Instead I see the bios post, the hard disk light flickers once and I have to install again (I have tried to ...
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What is the most "Ubuntu" way of preventing certain users from shutting down, suspending etc?
On a traditional Unix system, non-root users cannot do this. What is it that gives users this ability in modern desktop environments and how would I go about disabling this on a per-user or per-group ...
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Define a Policykit action for Upstart [closed]
I'm trying to get some user to start, stop and reload services by using the udev Upstart interface. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.
I created the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Job....
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How can I get Policykit-1-KDE to preselect the current user?
On my new Kubuntu 11.10 system, there are two users with administrative rights (paulo and administranto). Whenever I now from a KDE GUI dialog do some action which needs administrative rights, I get a ...
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How do I prevent PolicyKit from asking for a password?
For years, I've had the following in my sudoers file:
scott ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
For those who don't know, this prevents sudo and friends (gksudo, etc.) from asking for a password. However, over the ...
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When to use pkexec vs. gksu/gksudo?
There are two general ways to run applications graphically as root (or, more generally, as another user). Programs like gksu, gksudo, and kdesudo are graphical frontends for sudo. In contrast, pkexec ...
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What to do when it says "unable to locate package" policykit
I'm following a tutorial that says I need to run sudo apt-get update and then install a whole bunch of packages. All of them work, except policykit. It gives me Unable to locate package policykit. Is ...
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Policykit is not initialised in custom xsession launched via LightDM
I'm running a fully updated Ubuntu 11.10 install and I've been using LightDM to launch a "User Defined Session" which executes the .xsession script in my home folder. The script that I have written ...
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How to make the disk utility ask for password before making modifications?
Currently, I can right click any drive that is attached to the system and click format. No password is asked at all while the data is wiped. I can also format any drive from the disk utility. This ...
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How to prevent Synaptic Package Manager from asking for password?
This is similar to How to prevent system applications (like the Software Center) from asking for password? However that solution does not work for Synaptic Package Manager in 10.04.
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Software Center doesn't prompt for password
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
The software center was asking me for password when I wanted to install/remove any application. Since last week, it doesn't prompt for password. Also, I have the same problem ...
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How to prevent system applications (like the Software Center) from asking for password?
I'd like Software Center, Update Manager and some other system management applications to work without asking for password (like sudo does if configured with NOPASSWD) but only asking for a ...
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How do I rip CDs with Sound Juicer over X11 forwarding?
I am trying to rip a CD with Sound Juicer over X11 forwarding (CD is in the desktop across the room, I'm SSHing in from my laptop), but Sound Juicer cannot find my CD drive. It works correctly when I ...
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