[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[jorgwel]

Is it possible to install accountsservice=0.6.40 in Ubuntu 14.04? I'm
having this bug in a machine which I am not authorized to upgrade to a
more recent version.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

> Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2016-04-29:#43

> @Alkis, right, the line changed was what you suggested in the upstream report 
> and in comment #33, 
> if that's incorrect/incomplete could you update the upstream report?


I'm sorry guys for some reason I wasn't getting notifications from this bug 
report, I've just commented on the upstream bug.

Glad to see this was fixed! Thanks!

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu11

---
accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu11) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
- updated to use allow_any=yes to avoid displaying unndeed dialog for
  remote sessions as well, thanks Alkis Georgopoulos
  (lp: #1512002)

 -- Sebastien Bacher   Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:15:39
+0200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Bartosz Kosiorek]

** Tags removed: verification-needed
** Tags added: verification-done

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Daniel Richard G.]

Spurious dialog observed in remote X session on Xenial install with
accountservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu10.

Enabled xenial-proposed, installed accountservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu11, and
the dialog no longer appears.

I wasn't seeing this problem as badly as some other folks here, but for
my use case, the proposed fix is VERIFIED.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Martin Pitt]

Hello brainsail, or anyone else affected,

Accepted accountsservice into xenial-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/0.6.40-2ubuntu11 in
a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Also affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** No longer affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Xenial)

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu12

---
accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu12) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
- updated to use allow_any=yes to avoid displaying unndeed dialog for
  remote sessions as well, thanks Alkis Georgopoulos
  (lp: #1512002)

 -- Sebastien Bacher   Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:15:39
+0200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Sebastien Bacher]

** Changed in: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Description changed:

+ * Impact
+ 
+ Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
+ data" prompts are displayed
+ 
+ * Test case
+ 
+ 
+ $ ssh -X localhost
+ $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
+ $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true
+ 
+ that shouldn't trigger a prompt
+ 
+ * Regression potential
+ 
+ it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
+ shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working
+ 
+ 
+ --
+ 
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  
  $ ssh -X localhost
  $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
  $ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
  --

  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Marc Deslauriers]

I can't think of any reason why having a session would be important in
this case, so I think changing allow_any to yes should be fine.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Sebastien Bacher]

I just discussed that with Robert the current rule is

  auth_self
  auth_self
  yes

the "allow_any" doesn't override the other ones, but active/inactive
apply to your local session when active/inactive, the any applies to non
local session (e.g ssh case), so the patch fixed the issue with local
locked session but not with ssh

letting any client do changes is relaxing a bit permissions but
shouldn't be an issue since it only concerns non sensitive datas
(locale, keyboard, etc), still I would like a security team comment
before doing the change  Marc, do you have an opinion there?

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Sebastien Bacher]

@Alkis, right, the line changed was what you suggested in the upstream
report and in comment #33, if that's incorrect/incomplete could you
update the upstream report?

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Salvo Isaja]

Still happening in 16.04.
My setup is based on Ubuntu Server, login via xrdp in an xfce4 session, Active 
Directory authentication enabled against a Windows Server 2003 PDC. The problem 
happens with both local users and Active Directory users, right after login.
Thank you.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

@seb128, thanks for releasing the fix, but it appears that not all the patch 
from comment #36 was applied:
-  auth_self
-  auth_self
+  yes
+  yes

 is still "auth_self" in accountsservice 0.6.40-2ubuntu10,
and I think that it takes priority over , so the problem
still persists and can be reproduced as described in comment #36.

Could you please re-release the fix while applying the whole patch?
Thank you!

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Released => Triaged

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Radik]

** Changed in: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu)
 Assignee: (unassigned) => Radik (pro100rb)

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Title:
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  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu10

---
accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu10) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
- let inactive user sessions update their own datas without
  triggering authentification dialogs. Indicator-messages does that to
  indicate to the greeter that the user received messages, which
  currently leads to auth dialog to be stacked in the locked session,
  thanks Alkis Georgopoulos (lp: #1512002)

 -- Sebastien Bacher   Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:23:47
+0200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

@desrt, isn't that explained in comment #33,
i.e. in 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-messages/+bug/1192300/comments/13
i.e. in patch 
https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290
 ?

SetXHasMessages is called by the accounts_notify() function that mterry
implemented.

I think what we can do in Ubuntu now, is to apply the patch, and if/when
upstream accepts it, to drop the .diff.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Allison Ryan Lortie]

Although I agree that it makes sense to allow the user to modify their
own data even if not "actively logged in", I think it would also be
interesting to track down the program that is the real source of this
problem.  ie: let's figure out which part of the session is writing to
accountsservice at random times...

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

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On 2016-04-11T17:14:30+00:00 Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:

Currently, data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy.in specifies that a user
must be active in order to set his own data.

X2go, LTSP etc users are considered remote, i.e. inactive, and they are not 
allowed to change their own user data without authentication.
This results in a different behaviour when they e.g. try to change their 
language in the `gnome-control-center user-accounts`.

Furthermore, in some distributions it has been observed that change-own-
user-data authentication dialogs popup when changing VTs or when
switching users or sometimes even with just gnome-screensaver, possibly
because the distribution is trying to update the user data (e.g. to
notify the UI that he has new mails) when the user's vt was not active.

Therefore I'd like to ask you to consider setting
yes for change-own-user-data.

Ubuntu bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1512002

Thanks!

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/1512002/comments/37


** Changed in: accountsservice
   Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: accountsservice
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

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** Tags added: patch

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice:
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  Confirmed
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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #94895
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94895

** Also affects: accountsservice via
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94895
   Importance: Unknown
   Status: Unknown

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Status in accountsservice:
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Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Here's another way to reproduce it:


$ ssh -X localhost
$ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
$ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts 
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

It doesn't make sense to have the user authenticate himself just to tell him he 
has new mail.
This affects gnome-screensaver, lightdm's user switching ability, X2go, LTSP 
etc.

Please replace the "auth_self" with "yes" as in the provided patch.

** Patch added: "change-own-user-data.patch"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1512002/+attachment/4632965/+files/change-own-user-data.patch

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Here is one method to see the dialog without working remotely:

sudo sed 's/yes/auth_self/' -i 
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy
Then press Alt+Ctrl+F2 to switch to vt2, and Alt+Ctrl+F7 to switch back to vt7.

After testing, to revert the change, run:
sudo sed 's/auth_self/yes/' -i 
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy


On LTSP thin clients, one can reproduce it by just changing VTs, without 
changing the accountsservice polkit files.

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Title:
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Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
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  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

mterry, charlesk, I took the liberty of subscribing you because I think it 
involves this commit:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290

The issue is happening to me as well, on Ubuntu 16.04 gnome-flashback, in 2 
cases:
1) sometimes when I try to unlock the screensaver,
2) sometimes when I login via ltsp thin/fat clients.

I think the problem is the one mentioned by khadgaray in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-
messages/+bug/1192300.

I.e. that the system is trying to notify us if we have new mails etc,
and that for some reason(s) it's considering us an "inactive user"
(inactive means not in the active screen of the pc, either remote or in
a screensaver etc) and thus we need authentication.

The necessary rights are defined in this file:
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy

  
...

  auth_self
  auth_self
  yes

...

I think that if we change "auth_self"
to "yes",
we'll have a temporary workaround to the problem.

But the real issue is, should the system consider us "inactive" in the screen 
saver?
Should it consider us inactive in ltsp thin clients that are remote sessions?
Should it consider us inactive in ltsp fat clients where accountsservice 
doesn't have information about the remote user account? (similar with ldap)

If the answer to the above is yes, then maybe the workaround that I
mentioned above should be committed to accountsservice?

** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[electromage]

This is happening to me every time I unlock my screen, and when I got
home today it popped up 197 times.

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
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password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[moreje]

For my part, the dialog box was deactivated following one of the suggested 
solutions...but I don't know if it is related or not...if I switch on another 
account , and then switch back to mine (Admin), the status bar and left dock 
are frozen.
then I have to close my session (Ctrl + Alt + Suppr) ...and re-open it to get 
it working

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  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Darren Davison]

> How do I disable the message notification panel?

right click the indicator icons in the panel and click "remove" in the
pop-up menu.  Let us know if it works for you

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Marius Nuennerich]

Running stock Ubuntu 16.04 without NFS and I'm seeing this too.
re #22: How do I disable the message notification panel?

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
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Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Alistair Buxton]

This is somehow related to indicator-messages. It has been reported
before at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-
messages/+bug/1192300 but that bug involves a remote authentication
server. I have no such server, so it is similar but not the same.

** Also affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

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  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
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Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Jason Hines]

Since I turned on "lock the session when screen saver is activated" in
xubuntu 16.04 I get this message. The action is org.freedesktop.accounts
.change-own-user-data. After entering my password the dialog box pops up
again. I've tried putting my password in up to about 20 times and the
box still pops back up.

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  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
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Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[bluebomber]

Is there any official solution to this anywhere? This is still happening
to me on Ubuntu 15.10, and it's one of the most annoying problems I've
ever encountered; sometimes when I switch from one logged-in user to
another, I have to click cancel on dozens and dozens of these prompts.
And I'm not comfortable following any of the workarounds involving
uninstalling notification programs or disabling policykit stuff...

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[longo]

Same thing here on Xubuntu 15.10 upgraded from 15.04 (where I had this
annoying dialog occasionally).

There is a "solution" at
http://mclements.net/blogWP/index.php/2015/12/11/stop-that-pesky-
authorization-dialog/ that, according to my understanding, simply
disables the dialog box. It seems to have the desired effect, but I do
not understand why, and what side effects it causes, so I disabled it.

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[gouri]

Observed this bug on Xubuntu 16.04 (installed yesterday from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/current/xenial-desktop-
amd64.iso.zsync ).

New account, quickly customized.

Observed after locking screen for the first time with 16.04.

Never observed before (on 15.10, 15.04, 14.10 with same hardware), but
on those I used xscreensaver because of a bug with lightdm.

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Darren Davison]

I'm pretty sure the message notification panel is to blame.  I ran with
it disabled for several days a few weeks ago and I wasn't plagued by
this dialog on a single occasion.  Unfortunately, though I can do
without the notifications, I can't do without the volume control and for
some bizarre reason they are one and the same :/

If a few people could confirm that they see this behaviour disappear
when they unload the notification panel, at least someone could start
taking a look at the code/config that might be the cause of this
annoyance.

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  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[moreje]

it is not only Xubuntu, but also Ubuntu

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  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Zeioth]

Got this bug in Xubuntu 15.10 too.

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Scott I. Remick]

I've been experiencing this same bug for a few Xubuntu versions now. I'm
not sure if it's fully/always related to bug# 316691 as I don't do any
sort of network authentication here and never have. Been scouring the
internet for ages now looking for a solution... all I've seen so far are
hacks that seem unsafe and not recommended, or potential fixes that
didn't fix things for me. Meanwhile the number of users affected (going
by public posting locatable via Google searches) seem to be growing
monthly... considerably more than who are lucky enough to stumble upon
this bug and are participating here.

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Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Aard Keimpema]

I'm experiencing this bug under xubuntu 15.10.

As work around I switched from light locker to xscreensaver for screen
locking which will stop these seriously annoying popups from appearing.
Presumably this works because xscreensaver uses a different locking
mechanism.

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Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Jiří Hajda]

This bug can be related to 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/230270/immediately-after-login-my-12-04-lts-desktop-asks-for-my-password-for-authenti/316691#316691
But I don't understand how to apply mentioned solution. My computer have 
connection to NFS share but I don't want to change local user UID and I don't 
know what is remote UID. Also I don't want to remove indicator-messages package.

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  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Jiří Hajda]

I have Xubuntu 15.10. Main question is how we can determine for which action 
authentication window popped out? I searched process tree using htop and saw 
that if window was visible then it was like this:
  PID USER  PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
 2584 jha20   0  332M 22880 19076 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.62 │  │  │  │ 
├─ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
22144 root   20   0 77024  4472  3920 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.00 │  │  │  │ │ 
 ├─ /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 jha
 2595 jha20   0  332M 22880 19076 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 │  │  │  │ │ 
 ├─ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
 2594 jha20   0  332M 22880 19076 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 │  │  │  │ │ 
 └─ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

After closing window it changed to:
  PID USER  PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
 2584 jha20   0  331M 22980 19172 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.66 │  │  │  │ 
├─ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
 2595 jha20   0  331M 22980 19172 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 │  │  │  │ │ 
 ├─ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
 2594 jha20   0  331M 22980 19172 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00 │  │  │  │ │ 
 └─ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

So this /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 was responsible for showing 
the window. Probably something wanted to be run under root as USER column 
indicates.
Interesting is that this auth window is displayed for me only when my computer 
is resumed from sleep state and not always just sometimes.

Polkit auth dialog can be invoked from command line manually for example: 
/usr/bin/pkexec uptime
But how to get source for visible dialog if text in dialog is just not enough 
descriptive? If polkit uses DBUS for message delivery than it is not easy to 
trace original source. dbus-monitor --system not provided useful data and I 
don't know how to run dbus-monitor --session and if it could help.

>From /var/log/auth.log:
Jan 12 10:26:10 jha polkitd(authority=local): Operator of unix-session:c2 
FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action 
org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data for system-bus
-name::1.58 
[/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-messages/indicator-messages-service] 
(owned by unix-user:jha)
Jan 12 10:26:10 jha dbus[940]: [system] Rejected send message, 9 matched rules; 
type="error", sender=":1.6" (uid=0 pid=914 
comm="/usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon ") interface="(unset
)" member="(unset)" error 
name="org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.PermissionDenied" requested_reply="0" 
destination=":1.58" (uid=1000 pid=2763 
comm="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-messages
/indic")

This suggests that indicator services wanted to change user data?
Interesting. How to repeat this event?

Also same auth window with org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data
action appears everytime I login to xrdp remote desktop session with
xubuntu installed on server. But in this case it could be slightly
different cause.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[moreje]

Same problem here using Ubuntu 15.10
it's coming together with freeze of status bar and Dock bar

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[sl0n]

// take from 
http://ubuntu.itsprite.com/ubuntuseemingly-random-authentication-is-required-to-change-your-own-user-data/

This worked to me:

1) At Settings -> Session and Startup ( Application Autostart TAB )

Session and Startup

Uncheck PolicyKit Authentication Agent

( /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 )

2) In a Terminal:

1
sudo killall polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
My Desktop was running:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release: 15.10
Codename: wily

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Darren Davison]

I think the advice to disable the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 to
fix this is akin to advising someone to take the batteries out of their
smoke alarms to stop the annoying noise.

One of the other links in there has a more plausible angle though, which
is that it is to do with the message notification panel.  I'm running
with this disabled/removed to see if it is the likely culprit.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Michael Lynch]

This problem popped up last night and has now occurred the last three times I 
woke my computer from sleep ("suspend") mode.
When I type my password to wake my computer, I get the same dialog box 
indicating that authentication is required, and the details indicate 
"org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data". I have clicked "cancel" each 
time and was able to resume work without any problems.
I am working on a desktop running Ubuntu 15.10.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Darren Davison]

I'm using Xubuntu, yes.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[brainsail]

No, I have plain Ubuntu.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[electromage]

This happening to me too, Xubuntu 15.10. Every time I unlock my desktop
I get somewhere between 3-30 of these.

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  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Sebastien Bacher]

is everybody having the issue using xubuntu?

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Darren Davison]

>From my logs (summarized by logwatch)...

polkitd(authority=local): message repeated 473 times: [ Operator of
unix-session:c2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action
org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data for system-bus-name::1.48
[] (owned by unix-user:darren)]: 1 Time(s)

So that's 473 times the dialog appeared yesterday with no indication as
to why.  It's also affecting multiple users on my main 15.10 machine now
- in comment #5 I reported that it was only affecting a single user.
Still appears to be related to switching user sessions.

Is anyone looking into this?  Any further info/logs I can provide to
assist?

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Title:
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  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Peter Petermann]

I upgraded to xubuntu 15.10 yesterday, ever since i have the same issue
like smares described. (did not have any issues before)

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Darren Davison]

I notice one of the comments on the forum issue (linked in comment #3)
mentions that the symptoms are apparent after switching users and
switching back.  This is also the same for me on the desktop box where 2
people are almost permanently logged in with one or both having a locked
session.  Only seems to affect one user however.  May be relevant.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Darren Davison]

I recently installed 2 machines with Xubuntu 15.10 and I see this issue
very often, but not *always* on one of them (a desktop PC) and never on
the other (a laptop).

On the desktop machine, I simply hover over the dialog and hold my ESC
key down until it eventually goes away.  Like another responder said, it
seems to be time dependent and stores the events while the machine is
locked.  Typically takes a few seconds (so probably 30-40 cancellations
of the dialog) but the most recent one took over a minute (I'd estimate
the dialog re-appeared a couple of hundred times at least) although the
machine wasn't locked for significantly longer than before.

Once it disappears for the last time, it seems to stay away until the
next time the machine is locked/unlocked.

It's parent process is the xfce-session (in my case) so it's not obvious
what is actually triggering it to appear.  Entering the password
seemingly makes no difference to the persistent nature of the dialog.

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Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
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Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[dah bien-hwa]

I have the same problem after an upgrade to 15.10. running a gnome3
session here.

One other report of this problem is here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/562355/seemingly-random-authentication-
is-required-to-change-your-own-user-data

The "solution" posted there however doesn't seem right to me (preventing
PolicyKit Authentication Aagent from starting).

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Title:
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Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Sebastian Mares]

I don't know if this is related, but I have s imilar problem under
Xubuntu 15.04 that is still present in 15.10. Everytime I lock my
computer and come back and unlock it, I have one or multiple
"Authentication is required to change your own user data" popups. It
seems to be dependant on the time the PC was locked. If it was locked
for two or three minutes, there's only one or maybe two authentication
boxes that appear one after another. However, if I come back after lunch
(30 minutes), I once had to enter the password 18 times, but usually it
stops after 10 popups. Highly annoying.

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Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1512002] Re: Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user data"

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Confirmed

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Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change 
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's 
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the 
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days 
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether 
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still 
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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