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Bug 784893 - admin backend doesn't work in flatpak
admin backend doesn't work in flatpak
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: admin backend
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Cosimo Cecchi
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-07-13 08:47 UTC by Ondrej Holy
Modified: 2018-09-21 18:07 UTC
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Description Ondrej Holy 2017-07-13 08:47:57 UTC 
Polkit authorization checks rely on process pid, but it seems that peer credentials can't be obtained from dbus in flatpak probably...

If you try to open admin:/// e.g. in gedit it fails with the following:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Unix process subject does not have uid set

and gvfs debug log contains a lot of:
GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_credentials_get_unix_pid: assertion 'G_IS_CREDENTIALS (credentials)' failed

because g_dbus_connection_get_peer_credentials returns NULL in flatpak.
Comment 1 Ondrej Holy 2017-07-20 15:06:51 UTC 
See the relevant check_permission code in the daemon:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/tree/daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c#n79
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-21 18:07:50 UTC 
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