Bug 17938

Summary:	polkit-grant-helper: it only makes sense to run polkit-grant-helper as non-root
Product:	PolicyKit	Reporter:	Γριφεγ (z0z0tuss) <grfgguvf>
Component:	daemon	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Severity:	critical
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Γριφεγ (z0z0tuss) 2008-10-07 00:03:20 UTC

PackageKit console pkcon can't be run as root because PolicyKit:

localhost:~ # pkcon refresh
refresh-cache                                     [               ] (0%)  Attempting to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh.
polkit-grant-helper: it only makes sense to run polkit-grant-helper as non-root
Failed to obtain authorization for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh.
You don't have the necessary privileges for this operation

Comment 1 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2009-10-21 10:38:17 UTC

This bug report is for the old version of PolicyKit. Closing as all of the code has been rewritten. Please reopen if the bug report applies to the latest version of PolicyKit. Thanks.

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