Bug 59709 - pkexec's internal agent is racy
Summary: pkexec's internal agent is racy
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: PolicyKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: daemon (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
QA Contact: David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?...
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Reported: 2013-01-22 12:14 UTC by Nirbheek Chauhan
Modified: 2018-08-20 21:35 UTC (History)
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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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