Bug#705316: gnome-system-log: Non-admins can't run the app directly from the menus

[Michael Biebl]

Am 13.04.2013 01:27, schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
> Package: gnome-system-log
> Version: 3.8.0-1
> Severity: important
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu raring
> 
> 1. From a "standard" (non-admin) user account, find System Log in the
> menus and run it.
> 2. Hit Cancel since let's assume that the standard user doesn't know
> the admin password. The app closes.
> 
> This is a regression from previous versions of gnome-system-log and is
> caused by Debian's pkexec patch. Ideally, policykit would be
> integrated upstream so that the app will still work without admin
> credentials except that a user can only view logs accessible with the
> user's permissions.

I'm getting a return code of "126" when dismissing the auth dialog.
We could check for that in gnome-system-log-pkexec and simply run
gnome-system-log as a fallback then?

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