[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#765184: modemmanager: Polkit policy prevent geoclue 2 to get information from the modem

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: modemmanager
Version: 1.4.0-1
Severity: important

Hello,

geoclue 2 is not running in the user session but in its own user.

When I tried to get the position using my modem, I got polkit asking me
for geoclue password (which doesn't have one as it's a system user).

Moreover, the general polkit configuration seems pretty strict and ask
for the user password for everything.

For the 1st issue I guess the "geoclue" user could be granted the needed
privileges in the configuration.

Otherwise the polkit integration could be disabled completely like in
fedora? (not sure this is a good idea)

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages modemmanager depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers    1.21
ii  libc6                  2.19-11
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.42.0-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         215-5+b1
ii  libmbim-glib4          1.10.0-2
ii  libmbim-proxy          1.10.0-2
ii  libmm-glib0            1.4.0-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.112-3
ii  libqmi-glib1           1.10.2-2
ii  libqmi-proxy           1.10.2-2

Versions of packages modemmanager recommends:
ii  usb-modeswitch  2.2.0+repack0-2

modemmanager suggests no packages.

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