Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-8
Severity: important
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From: "pab@bee" <p.brett...@bee.de>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: policykit-1: pkaction authentication error for users not listed in
/etc/passwd
Message-ID: <20160610110550.2230.44657.report...@tc-02-iv7.do.bee.de>
X-Mailer: reportbug 6.6.3
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:05:50 +0200
Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-8
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
when trying to use any policykit dependend actions like shutdown/reboot or
automount in Xfce4 it does not work for LDAP users
but for local users. The command "pkaction" shows the following error for that
particular user:
----------
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Exhausted all available
authentication mechanisms (tried: EXTERNAL, DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, ANONYMOUS)
(available: EXTERNAL, DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1, ANONYMOUS)
----------
For local users it just lists available actions.
Found Workaround:
If I add the LDAP-User to /etc/passwd (e.g execute "getent passwd
specific_ldap_user >> /etc/passwd" for the specific_ldap_user), pkaction begins
to work instantly.
After a relog to the XFCE4-Session the Logout options
shutdown/reboot/suspend/hibernate are all available and working.
We would like a real solution because the workaround can not be applied
dynamically while logging in a user to desktop so it would be nice if this
would work out of the box.
Additional infos: NSCD is not used only nslcd and libpam-ldapd.
Kind regards!
Pasqual Brettner
bee GmbH Dortmund
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii dbus 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libpam-systemd 215-17+deb8u4
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-8
ii libpolkit-backend-1-0 0.105-8
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-8
policykit-1 recommends no packages.
policykit-1 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii dbus 1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libpam-systemd 215-17+deb8u4
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1
ii libpolkit-agent-1-0 0.105-8
ii libpolkit-backend-1-0 0.105-8
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-8
policykit-1 recommends no packages.
policykit-1 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
