I installed Maverick desktop edition in a VM using the ISO image. After installation, I installed only vnc4server and ssh. I logged in remotely and started the VNC session. I confirmed that users-admin does not get an authorization from policy kit. No window appears that says that it cannot get authorization. (I think that is a regression from Lucid, by itself.)
Then, I edited the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.policy file manually, as you described. Rather than try to figure out what tools needed to be restarted, I rebooted after each change to this file. This is very fast in a VM on my box, so I figured it would be good to eliminate all variables. In this first edit, I only changed allow_active to allow_any in both sections of the file and deleted the allow_inactive lines. After doing so, I was able to get authorized in users-admin running in the VNC session. I was not able to get authorized in users- admin running in a local GDM session however. Next, I edited the policy file manually again, adding back the original <allow_active> lines. Again, I rebooted. At this point, I was able to get authorized in users-admin in both the VNC session and the local GDM session. Great news! Finally, I upgraded to the latest packages with "apt-get update && apt- get upgrade". I changed nothing in /etc/apt, either manually or using the "Software Sources" GUI. After all of the packages had been downloaded and installed, I rebooted again. In this final state, I can no longer get authorization in users-admin running in the VNC session. It still works in the local GDM session however. The policy file has not been modified or overwritten by the upgrade process. -- users-admin cannot get authorized from policy kit in VNC session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668901 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
