Comment 5 for bug 477832

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Tristan Schmelcher (tschmelcher) wrote :

tristan@tinygod4:~$ ps ax | grep polkit
 2634 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
 2655 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
 6779 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
 6893 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep polkit
tristan@tinygod4:~$ ps -ef | grep polkit
kateryna 2634 2448 0 Nov07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
root 2655 1 0 Nov07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
tristan 6779 6622 0 07:16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
tristan 6895 6873 0 07:17 pts/1 00:00:00 grep polkit
tristan@tinygod4:~$ pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set --process `pidof users-admin` -u
Not authorized.
tristan@tinygod4:~$ pkaction --action-id org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set --verbose
org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set:
  description: Manage system configuration
  message: System policy prevents modifying the system configuration
  vendor:
  vendor_url:
  icon:
  implicit any: no
  implicit inactive: no
  implicit active: auth_admin_keep

tristan@tinygod4:~$

There is no System->Administration->Network Connections, only System->Administration->Network. It says "Not authorized to make changes" at the bottom, just like users-admin, so I can't even attempt to edit anything.

Btw, it shouldn't matter that I'm doing this all over VNC, should it?