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policykit-1-gnome package

  1. Bug #540247
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 540247

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote : Re: [users-admin] no authorization dialog, unable to add user

If you can't authenticate from time-admin either, there must be a problem with PolicyKit. Please run
pkcheck --allow-user-interaction --process PID --action-id org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.self.set
and
pkcheck --allow-user-interaction --process PID --action-id org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set

Replace PID with the PID of a process run by your user, e.g. start users-admin and get its PID using 'pidof users-admin'.

Are you sure changing your own name really works, i.e. changes are still there when you restart users-admin? There's a bug in current Lucid version where we pretend we change the name. Are you able to authenticate e.g. in System->Administration->Network Connections, trying to make a connection "For All Users"?