PolicyKit authentication not accepting passwords
Bug #208055 reported by
Mark Pokorny
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #205037: policykit or policykit-gnome do not work with passwords containing "%" character.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: policykit
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04
Packages:
policykit 0.7-2ubuntu5
policykit-gnome 0.7-2
When attempting to change system items (such as the system clock, user password or anything in the 'Authorizations' application), the policykit window that appears does not accept the password that I enter (I am 100% sure it is correct). Instead what happens is that after five seconds or so, the window 'wobbles' back and forth (twice) by a few pixels, and then clears the password box as if prompting to reinsert the password.
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I had the exact same problem until I change my password.
My old password contained the string "%m" (percent sign, m), I'm pretty sure polkit-grant-helper badly mangled this string before validating th password.
Hint :
- type your password, but don't hit "Enter",
- switch to a text console and run "sudo strace -p $(pidof
- go back to to your Gnome console an hit "Enter"
- go back to the text console and see the string polkit-grant-helper tried to write...