Bug 59709

Summary:	pkexec's internal agent is racy
Product:	PolicyKit	Reporter:	Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan>
Component:	daemon	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449842
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Description Nirbheek Chauhan 2013-01-22 12:14:45 UTC

When a polkit agent isn't available in the current session, and pkexec's internal agent is used to authenticate and run a command that takes some time to execute, the auth thread exits prematurely and causes a hangup.

This has been reported in a number of places, including Gentoo: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449842

Steps to reproduce:

1. Kill all polkit auth agents in the session
2. pkexec find /

Expected output:

[Several thousand lines of file listings]

Actual output:

$ pkexec find /
[...]
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
/
Hangup
$

Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:35:10 UTC

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