X2Go Bug report logs - #459
PolicyKit authentication within apps often fails

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Reported by: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 4.0.1.13

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From: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Mike Gabriel
> <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>>
>> On  So 23 Mär 2014 17:25:58 CET, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>>
>>>[...]
>>
>>
>> I just fixed #458 by exporting $XAUTHORITY in x2goruncommand.
>
> Thank you :)
>
>> Do you have any clue what this issue may be related to? As I don't have any
>> of the failing apps on Debian, I cannot reproduce your test results right
>> away.
>
> 2 possible theories:
> 1. We are not integrating with ConsoleKit and/or logind properly.
> (Although it appears that our integration with logind is better, since
> Fedora 20 works better than CentOS 6.)
> 2. We have issues with the polcykit authentication windows not being
> permitted to show up.
>
A 3rd possible theory:
3. PolicyKit policies are blocking certain actions from happening over
any sort of remote session. PolicyKit refers to local sessions as
"Active" and remote sessions as "Inactive".
It appears that the X11RDP project has run into this problem:
http://scarygliders.net/2012/06/20/a-brief-guide-to-policykit/
http://scarygliders.net/category/policykit/

> I think that there is different behavior when using XDMCP. I'll double
> check after work.
>
> Also, Red Hat has some KB articles on this subject. I noticed them
> after I bought a RHEL subscription for home. I'll look over them
> again, and update this bug with any relevant info.
>
>> Any hint, if this issues also occurs on Debian?
>
> I can test this with VMs. I've already created some Debian VMs for
> compatibility testing with X2Go. Which of the 3 releases (squeeze,
> wheezy and jessie) should I test? Squeeze is similar to CentOS 6 in
> terms of versions of packages like ConsoleKit.
>
>> Mike
> [...]

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