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Bug 661831 - Security Login Permission Popup ask password from a different account
Security Login Permission Popup ask password from a different account
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: 2011-10-15 06:25 UTC by Marc Olivier Chouinard
Modified: 2011-10-15 18:45 UTC
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Description Marc Olivier Chouinard 2011-10-15 06:25:02 UTC 
I got 2 account on the machine with administrator permission.

I'm logged with one of them, and installing an application, but my password did't work, until I noticed it was asking me to authenticate as the other user on the machine.

I checked, and I do have administrator right, including sudo.
Comment 1 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-10-15 08:47:06 UTC 
Have you checked in System Settings->User accounts that you actually are marked as administrator? I was having the same problem until I figured out I wasn't (I used su only). I'm not sure that on every distro sudo rights are always associated with PolicyKit admin rights ('sudoers' group vs. 'wheel' group on Fedora). What's your distribution BTW?
Comment 2 Marc Olivier Chouinard 2011-10-15 14:12:14 UTC 
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10.  I have check the System Settings->User account and I am mark as administrator.  But if I click to unlock the panel for example, it ask me the password for a different user than the one I'm logged in with.
Comment 3 Rui Matos 2011-10-15 18:45:29 UTC 

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