Bug 64267

Summary:	pkttyagent --system-bus-name has broken
Product:	PolicyKit	Reporter:	Stef Walter <stefw>
Component:	libpolkit	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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959864
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Description Stef Walter 2013-05-06 06:56:37 UTC

The 'pkttyagent --system-bus-name' functionality has broken:

[stef@stef-fedora ~]$ pkttyagent --system-bus-name :1.133

** (process:2461): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Only unix-process and unix-session subjects can be used for authentication agents.
Error registering authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Only unix-process and unix-session subjects can be used for authentication agents. (polkit-error-quark, 0)

Using polkit version 0.110 here. Running as root makes no difference here.

Comment 1 Stef Walter 2013-05-06 06:56:44 UTC

Downstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=959864

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmac 2013-05-06 16:45:12 UTC

Stef, has the pkttyagent functionality actually ever worked?  AFAICS the restrictions on subjects had been there even before pkttyagent has been added:

The message comes from commit 42177383585e1e01cd6150f891176afcd4538a82, Aug 12 2010 - which was actually expanding the subjects agents can be registered for, from session only to session or process.

--system-bus-name comes from commit 13c5b2ebcdc81c4841e2d455cbb8dd7c58057043 , May 29 2009 - actually adding it to pkcheck(1), not pkttyagent(1).

bda0fc1de3361fc6f377d041ce2088118048fdf7, Apr 11 2012, then added pkttyagent(1), very likely copy&pasting a lot of code from pkcheck(1).

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:36:22 UTC

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