Hmm, I'm not seeing this with my F10 box with the latest D-Bus packages, see below. Can you try dbus-send on your system?

I am however seeing issues with the PackageKit packages since I'm getting

  "failed to get a TID: A security policy in place prevents this
   sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message
   bus configuration file (rejected message had interface
   "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction" member "SetLocale" error
   name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.PackageKit") (0)"

which shows I'm using the right D-Bus packages...

Weird, I wonder why PolicyKit works though...

$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit / org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.IsProcessAuthorized string:org.freedesktop.policykit.grant uint32:4390 boolean:false
method return sender=:1.111 -> dest=:1.126 reply_serial=2
   string "auth_admin_keep_always"

$ rpm -q dbus
dbus-1.2.6-1.fc10.x86_64

$ grep -10 "bugs.freedesktop" /etc/dbus-1/system.conf 
         even if they aren't in here -->
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"/>
    <allow receive_sender="org.freedesktop.DBus"/>
    <!-- allow sending valid replies -->
    <allow send_requested_reply="true" send_type="method_return"/>
    <allow send_requested_reply="true" send_type="error"/>
    <!-- allow receiving valid replies -->
    <allow receive_requested_reply="true"/>
    <!-- Note: the rule above also allows receiving of all non-reply messages
         that are not denied later.  See:
         https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18229
         Potentially this will be replaced in the future by the
         following two rules:
    <allow receive_requested_reply="true" receive_type="method_return"/>
    <allow receive_requested_reply="true" receive_type="error"/>
    -->
    <!-- disallow changing the activation environment of system services -->
    <deny send_destination="org.freedesktop.DBus"
          send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus"
          send_member="UpdateActivationEnvironment"/>
  </policy>

$ cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.conf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
  <!-- Only polkituser can own the service -->
  <policy user="polkituser">
    <allow own="org.freedesktop.PolicyKit"/>
  </policy>
</busconfig>

also, to test, suggest to use $$ to ask whether the shell you're using is authorized; e.g.

$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit / org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.IsProcessAuthorized string:org.freedesktop.policykit.grant uint32:$$ boolean:false

should work

dbus-send gives me:

# dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit / org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.IsProcessAuthorized string:org.freedesktop.policykit.grant uint32:$$ boolean:false 

Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1


I get following from s-c-services:
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit" member "IsSystemBusNameAuthorized" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.125")

I forgot:

# rpm -q dbus PolicyKit
dbus-1.2.6-1.fc10.i386
PolicyKit-0.9-3.fc10.i386

Apparently you don't have Bluez installed! Colin pointed out how broken bluetooth.conf is; it opens up holes for the object path "/" for *all* services.

Anyway, I can reproduce the bug now.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Apparently you don't have Bluez installed! Colin pointed out how broken
> bluetooth.conf is; it opens up holes for the object path "/" for *all*
> services.
> 
> Anyway, I can reproduce the bug now.
> 

Confirming that the fix proposed in comment 0 works; am committing that one.

Created attachment 20901 [details] [review]
tested patched

This patch fixes the problem.

For what it's worth, this is <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510646>. I've proposed the same patch for inclusion in Debian 5.0.

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.