Activity log for bug #1069234

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2012-10-20 22:42:43 Jamin W. Collins bug added bug
2012-10-20 22:43:44 Jamin W. Collins description With 12.10 it looks like gnome-disk-utility has moved to using udisks2 behind the scenes. However, it appears that polkit entries were not created for most of the potential actions that can be taken within gnome-disks. Many of the actions result in an error like the following: An error occured Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4) I've received the above error when trying to use gnome-disks to do things such as: - starting a benchmark of a volume All of these actions worked fine under 12.04 (via the gnome-disks precursor palimpsest and udisks). Digging into this, it appears that there are a total of 38 possible polkit actions and local admins are only authorized by default for a total of three of them (via 10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla): org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system org.freedesktop.udisks2.encrypted-unlock-system org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab Contrast this with the authorization for the previous udisk activities: org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-* org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart* Which covers 10 actions from what I can see. For parity with previous releases I believe the following actions also need to be authorized for local admins: org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount [1] org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-unmount-others [1] org.freedesktop.udisks2.ata-smart-* [2] I'm sure there are others as there doesn't appear to be a direct 1:1 translation for some of the permissions. This is a regression with regard to the previous 12.04 release and what local admin users were authorized to do. [1] - covered previously by org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-* [2]- covered previously by org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart* ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Oct 20 14:45:17 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-12 (8 days ago) With 12.10 it looks like gnome-disk-utility has moved to using udisks2 behind the scenes. However, it appears that polkit entries were not created for most of the potential actions that can be taken within gnome-disks. Many of the actions result in an error like the following: An error occured Not authorized to perform operation (udisks-error-quark, 4) I've received the above error when trying to use gnome-disks start a benchmark of a volume. This worked fine under 12.04 (via the gnome-disks precursor palimpsest and udisks). Digging into this, it appears that there are a total of 38 possible polkit actions and local admins are only authorized by default for a total of three of them (via 10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla): org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system org.freedesktop.udisks2.encrypted-unlock-system org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab Contrast this with the authorization for the previous udisk activities: org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-* org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart* Which covers 10 actions from what I can see. For parity with previous releases I believe the following actions also need to be authorized for local admins: org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount [1] org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-unmount-others [1] org.freedesktop.udisks2.ata-smart-* [2] I'm sure there are others as there doesn't appear to be a direct 1:1 translation for some of the permissions. This is a regression with regard to the previous 12.04 release and what local admin users were authorized to do. [1] - covered previously by org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-* [2]- covered previously by org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart* ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.6.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Oct 20 14:45:17 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027) ProcEnviron:  TERM=xterm  PATH=(custom, no user)  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8  SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-12 (8 days ago)
2012-10-21 12:12:49 Launchpad Janitor gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2012-10-21 17:00:45 Jamin W. Collins attachment added udisk2.pkla https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1069234/+attachment/3407659/+files/udisk2.pkla
2013-03-31 16:08:58 Florent Mertens bug added subscriber Florent Mertens
2013-04-29 09:10:44 Timo Aaltonen gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2013-04-29 09:10:55 Timo Aaltonen gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Triaged
2013-04-29 13:47:21 Jeremy Bícha bug task added policykit-desktop-privileges (Ubuntu)
2013-04-29 13:48:17 Jeremy Bícha bug task added udisks2 (Ubuntu)
2013-05-21 09:20:07 Martin Pitt marked as duplicate 1005643
2013-05-26 21:19:40 Launchpad Janitor policykit-desktop-privileges (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2013-05-26 21:19:40 Launchpad Janitor udisks2 (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2013-05-26 21:19:52 Alok Singhal bug added subscriber Alok Singhal