Authentication Agent "Authenticate" button incorrectly greyed out
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-flashback (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Zesty |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
When running a privileged application, such as Synaptic, under gnome-flashback an Authenticate dialog box pops up.
After I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04, the Password box and Authenticate button are now incorrectly greyed out.
[Test Case]
- Make sure there is at least two users with account type set to administrator.
- Try to run any privileged application.
- If dialog has already selected user then password entry should not be disabled.
- If there is no selected user, the password entry should be disabled until the user is selected.
[Proposed Fix]
The fix is a backport of upstream commit:
- https:/
“polkit: do not disable password entry”
[Regression Potential]
The commit in question only changes the sensitive property of prompt_label, password_entry and auth_button. This property was always FALSE before the commit, now it is TRUE in some cases. So the only possible regression could be that the entry and button are wrongly enabled when it should not. This is covered by the last item of the test case.
[Other Info]
I discovered a simple but very annoying workaround:
if I pull down and select a different user then pull down a second time to select myself, the Password box and Authenticate button are no longer greyed out and I can successfully authenticate.
The "Details" pull down in the Authenticate box shows
"Action: com.ubuntu.
This bug showed up after upgrading, and might not be directly related to the upgrade, but possibly due to uninstalling alternate desktops (Xubuntu and Lubuntu.)
I was able to reproduce and it seems that it only happens if you have at least two users with Administrator as account type. Please open upstream bug: /bugzilla. gnome.org/ enter_bug. cgi?product= gnome-flashback
https:/