I played around a bit with policykit and it seems like the polkit backend uses org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixUser to get the UID (not the EUID!) of the caller. I don't know what the cleanest solution would be, but adding setuid(0) to works for me (see patch).
** Attachment added: "Patch to setuid to 0 in polkit-agent-helper" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32794654/polkit_agent_helper-setuid.patch -- Policykit authentication dialog not responsive to clicks on the 'Authenticate' button https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439552 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
