Bug 85758

Summary:	Cannot authorize as password-less user
Product:	PolicyKit	Reporter:	Sasha2048 <sasha2048>
Component:	daemon	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sasha2048 2014-11-02 13:55:12 UTC

I use passwordless user on my notebook.

I.e. (extract from /etc/shadow):
sasha::15937:0:99999:7:::

However this user is allowed to do sudo without password:
sasha ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

This works OK when I work with console (e.g. do "sudo dpkg -i ...").
However, when using GUI to install a package (e.g. qapt-deb-installer), it shows a policy kit window to authorize, which doesn't accept neither empty password, nor any other password (unlike for example kdm login).

IMO, it should accept empty or any password (as kdm login does).

P.S.: As a workaround, I created (fake) another user, which also is allowed to sudo, but still has password.

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