On 12/11/2013 05:50 PM, Armin K. wrote: > On 12/12/2013 12:47 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: >> On 12/11/2013 05:35 PM, Armin K. wrote: >>> On 12/12/2013 12:19 AM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> You can always try running "pkexec /usr/sbin/gparted" from a terminal >>> and check the output. >> Interesting output. Now I need to find out why when running pkexec from >> the terminal, it thinks I'm somebody else. >>> dan [ ~ ]$ pkexec /usr/sbin/gparted >>> Error executing command as another user: Not authorized > This is due to consolekit misconfiguration. Most people ignore > recommended dependency of Linux PAM on the ConsoleKit page, which is > really, really *required* if you want ConsoleKit to work correctly. On > the other hand, I use systemd, which has logind - a replacement for > consolekit so I don't really know if polkit works anymore with just > consolekit. > > Post output of ck-list-sessions. It should read something like (if the > memory serves me well) active: yes, local: yes. If these two are not > yes, then consolekit is not configured correctly. I had just done this when your reply arrived and I had thought there was something wrong with consolekit. Here's the output
> Session3: > unix-user = '100' > realname = '(null)' > seat = 'Seat4' > session-type = '' > active = FALSE > x11-display = '' > x11-display-device = '' > display-device = '/dev/tty1' > remote-host-name = '' > is-local = FALSE > on-since = '2013-12-11T21:20:56.318833Z' > login-session-id = '4294967295' > idle-since-hint = '2013-12-11T21:21:26.873134Z' And I'm one of the ones who didn't install pam. I'll check into all of this. Once again, thanks, Armin Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
