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Bug 664076 - PK authentication dialog asks pw for the wrong user
PK authentication dialog asks pw for the wrong user
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 651547
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-11-14 22:24 UTC by Michael Biebl
Modified: 2011-11-14 22:27 UTC
See Also:
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Description Michael Biebl 2011-11-14 22:24:42 UTC 
Version: 3.2.1
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648464

If you have multiple users in the PK admin group [1], gnome-shell will always prompt for the first user found in that group, instead of the currently logged in user.
Say you have in /etc/group

admin:x:101:userA,userB

and you are logged in as userB, gnome-shell will prompt you for the userA password. There is also no possibility to select a different user in the authentication dialog.

The authencation dialogs from polkit-gnome handle this case correctly.


[1]
[Configuration]
AdminIdentities=unix-group:admin
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-11-14 22:27:51 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651547 ***