[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#814190: Bug#814190: Ping

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2018-07-07 16:14:00, u wrote:
> Salut Antoine,
>> I did enter my password at the prompt, but it failed to do the right
>> thing.
>
> What does `pkexec whoami` tell you?

I believe I answered that in an earlier email, but here it is again:

[997]anarcat at curie:~$ pkexec whoami
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/whoami' as the super user
Authenticating as: Antoine Beaupre,,, (anarcat)
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.
[998]anarcat at curie:~127$ 

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