Bug#522946: closed by Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> (reply to 522946 at bugs.debian.org) (Re: Bug#522946: gnome-network-admin: Unlock button is locked)

[Ximin Luo]

It turns out this bug exists for all programs in gnome-system-tools.

I have tried the following to no use:

installing gconf-defaults-service
installing policykit-gnome and running /usr/lib/policykit/polkitd
installing gksu-polkit and running this instead of gksu

when i run users-admin as root, everything is blanked out except the user i'm
logged on through GNOME as.

polkit-gnome-authorisation can't be run through a root terminal; when i run it
through gksu or even as normal, all the "grant", "modify", etc buttons are
locked too.

in other words, these programs seem think that they are being run as the user
that's currently logged on in GNOME, even if explicitly run as root.

X

Ximin Luo wrote:
> I have just installed policykit-gnome and the issue still persists. I'm still
> using 2.22.1-2 though; did you make any other changes?
> 
> To clarify, the unlock button is locked even when running network-admin as *root*.
> 
> X
> 
> Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
>> which was filed against the gnome-network-admin package:
>>
>> #522946: gnome-network-admin: Unlock button is locked
>>
>> It has been closed by Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> (reply to 522946 at bugs.debian.org).
>>
>> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
>> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
>> better one in a separate message then please contact Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> (reply to 522946 at bugs.debian.org) by
>> replying to this email.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Subject:
>> Re: Bug#522946: gnome-network-admin: Unlock button is locked
>> From:
>> Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>
>> Date:
>> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:25:09 +0200
>> To:
>> Ximin Luo <xl269 at cam.ac.uk>, 522946-done at bugs.debian.org
>>
>>
>> Version: 2.22.1-3
>>
>> Le mardi 07 avril 2009 à 15:30 +0100, Ximin Luo a écrit :
>>> The unlock button is locked. Someone on #gnome on irc.freenode.net said polkit-
>>> gnome-authorization (in policykit-gnome) might be able to help, but this
>>> involves installing additional packages. Also, after installation you also have
>>> to start the polkit daemon, which I can't figure out how to do.
>> The latest version depends on policykit-gnome, and installing it fixes
>> the issue. There is no need to start any additional daemon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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