Bug 90683

Summary:	realmd doesn't authorize root when polkit is not available
Product:	realmd	Reporter:	Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh>
Component:	realmd	Assignee:	Stef Walter <stefw>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	yelley
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Stephen Gallagher 2015-05-27 19:03:38 UTC

I attempted to install realmd on a Fedora Cloud instance with 'dnf install realmd sssd'. After that, I tried to 'realm discover mydomain.ad' (as root), but was met with:
realm: Couldn't discover realms: Not authorized to perform this action

The journal shows:
May 27 18:50:31 localhost realmd[28952]: client using service: :1.39
May 27 18:50:31 localhost realmd[28952]: holding daemon: :1.39
May 27 18:50:31 localhost realmd[28952]: Using 'r4162.29007' operation for method 'Discover' invocation on 'org.freedesktop.realmd.Provider'
 interface
May 27 18:50:31 localhost realmd[28952]: Registered cancellable for operation 'r4162.29007'
May 27 18:50:31 localhost realmd[28952]: couldn't check polkit authorization: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The nam
e org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files
May 27 18:50:31 localhost realmd[28952]: rejecting access to method 'Discover' on interface 'org.freedesktop.realmd.Provider' at /org/freede
sktop/realmd
May 27 18:50:31 localhost org.freedesktop.realmd[303]: ** (realmd:28952): WARNING **: couldn't check polkit authorization: GDBus.Error:org.f
reedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files


If I install polkit, realmd works properly.

Comment 1 Stef Walter 2015-06-30 09:02:21 UTC

Stephen, did you manage to make a patch for this?

Comment 2 Stephen Gallagher 2015-06-30 13:29:37 UTC

No, I have not patched this. I'm going to be dabbling with some realmd tweaks this week, I think. I'll see what I can do.

Comment 3 Charles Taylor 2016-05-24 21:14:21 UTC

It has been almost a year, and realmd is still unusable without polkit installed, which pretty much means anything with out a GUI.

When will this be fixed??

Comment 4 Charles Taylor 2016-05-24 21:27:12 UTC

For those of you that are encountering this problem, it is only a matter of adding the appropriate support in your distribution. The package name is "polkit" in Arch linux, "policykit-1" in Ubuntu. I'm not sure about other distributions.

This isn't a bug in realmd code explicitly. It is merely missing an installation prerequisite somewhere.

Comment 5 GitLab Migration User 2018-10-12 21:21:09 UTC

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