Even root may not have all privileges by default. Application try to obtain
missing privileges via authentication then and fail as polkit-grant-helper
refuses to work as root. Therefore also allow root to obtain privileges via
authentication.
Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
src/polkit-grant/polkit-grant-helper.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/polkit-grant/polkit-grant-helper.c
b/src/polkit-grant/polkit-grant-helper.c
index cdfa710..e601db4 100644
--- a/src/polkit-grant/polkit-grant-helper.c
+++ b/src/polkit-grant/polkit-grant-helper.c
@@ -589,10 +589,12 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
/* check user */
invoking_user_id = getuid ();
+#if 0 /* some people are crazy enough to log in as root */
if (invoking_user_id == 0) {
fprintf (stderr, "polkit-grant-helper: it only makes sense to
run polkit-grant-helper as non-root\n");
goto out;
}
+#endif
/* check that we are setgid polkituser */
egid = getegid ();
--
1.5.6
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