[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1125141: polkitd: polkit-agent-helper-1 missing setuid bit

[Niklas Cathor]

Package: polkitd
Version: 127-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: niklas.cathor at gmx.de

Dear Maintainer,

I was trying to install a package using gnome-software, which opened a dialog
prompting for authentication.

The dialog had a warning saying "Incorrect permissions on
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 (needs to be setuid root)".
Due to the permission issue it was not possible to authenticate this way (also
I was not able to dismiss the prompt, which I will report as a separate bug to
the gnome-shell package).

Setting the bit via `chmod u+s /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1` in a
root terminal fixes the situation for me (although I still had to restart
gnome-shell to be able to interact with it again).

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.17.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages polkitd depends on:
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.16.2-2
ii  libc6                           2.42-6
ii  libduktape207                   2.7.0-2+b2
ii  libexpat1                       2.7.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                 2.84.4-3
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]         259-1
ii  libpam0g                        1.7.0-5
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0             127-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0           127-1
ii  libsystemd0                     259-1
ii  systemd [systemd-sysusers]      259-1
ii  xml-core                        0.19

polkitd recommends no packages.

polkitd suggests no packages.

Versions of packages polkitd is related to:
pn  elogind         <none>
pn  libpam-elogind  <none>
ii  libpam-systemd  259-1
ii  systemd         259-1

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