[Pkg-lxde-maintainers] Bug#1008313: lxpolkit: no authentication dialog can't use it

[Paul Gevers]

Dear maintainers,

[Release Team member hat on].

On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:59:53 +0100 realroot 
<scorpion2185 at protonmail.com> wrote:
> If I try to use pkexec:
> 
> ---------------
> 
> ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
> Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/env' as the super user
> Authenticating as: root
> Password:
> polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
> ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
> Error executing command as another user: Not authorized
> 
> This incident has been reported.
> 
> -------------------
> 
> If I try to launch a program tha requires root like gparted:
> 
> /usr/sbin/gparted
> Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found.

Can you at least please comment on this bug? Do you recognize it? Can 
you reproduce it (I would guess not, seems like this would make lxde 
nearly useless for everybody)? *If* lxde is nearly useless for 
everybody, I'd like to know, then I think we shouldn't ship it with 
bookworm.

Paul
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