"When an application asks for special privileges through the policykit system, the list of domain administrators is correctly displayed..."
I don't even see this - LDAP accounts are not displayed by policykit enable applications at all. This is 100 percent reproducible by the simple setup I have described here and is clearly not the same as 781737. Note that I am now using Ubuntu 12.04 x86 and OpenDJ 2.4.6.
I have applied the patch detailed in https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ policykit- 1/+bug/ 781737 and there is no change to the behaviour.
I believe this bug has been incorrectly marked as a duplicate of 781737.
In bug 781737 the OP notes the following:
"When an application asks for special privileges through the policykit system, the list of domain administrators is correctly displayed..."
I don't even see this - LDAP accounts are not displayed by policykit enable applications at all. This is 100 percent reproducible by the simple setup I have described here and is clearly not the same as 781737. Note that I am now using Ubuntu 12.04 x86 and OpenDJ 2.4.6.