Ubuntu
lightdm package

  1. Bug #1240336
  2. Comment #78

Comment 78 for bug 1240336

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote : Re: After release upgrade, the user looses permissions for several basic actions in the system

I ran into this problem on Lubuntu 14.04. On that machine, the user created during the installation had no problem but every other regular users were affected.

The workaround was to join the regular users to the sudo group to please polkit. Since I really wanted those users to be "power less" I also added those sudoer rules:

jane ALL=(ALL) !ALL
jdoe ALL=(ALL) !ALL