[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#841878: policykit-1: Authentication fails with valid credentials

[Brian Vaughan]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.113-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Following a recent update, launching Synaptic through the menu system fails
silently. 'sudo synaptic' at the command line launches Synaptic as expected.

Executing 'synaptic-pkexec' (as in '/usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop',
and providing the correct password, produces the following:


==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic ===
Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager
Authenticating as: Brian Vaughan,,, (brian)
Password:
polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.


This appeared with policykit-1 0.105-17. I tried installing 0.113-5 from
experimental, but the behavior remained the same.



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

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  adduser                3.115
ii  dbus                   1.10.12-1
ii  libc6                  2.24-5
ii  libexpat1              2.2.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.1-1
ii  libmozjs185-1.0        1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-5
ii  libnspr4               2:4.12-6
ii  libpam-systemd         231-9
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.3
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.113-5
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.113-5
ii  libsystemd0            231-9

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-debian-sudo.rules [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-debian-sudo.rules'
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules'

-- no debconf information