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

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 at 21:13:24 -0700, Brian Vaughan wrote:
> Authenticating as: Brian Vaughan,,, (brian)
> Password:
> polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure

Please look in /var/log/auth.log for clues as to why your configured PAM
stack might have refused your valid credentials.

(It's entirely possible that this was caused by a policykit-1 change,
but to know what to do about it, we'll likely need that information.)

Thanks,
    S