Re: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 dies with polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid

2013-11-15 Thread Colin Walters
Hi, On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 15:45 -0700, Rob Frohne wrote: > I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 and more details can be seen at the bug report > I made here. > > frohro@frohro-e6410:~ > $ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 > > (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:7734): polkit-gnom

Re: pkexec in a chroot - bypassing dbus?

2013-11-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 17:05 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Leaving aside all comments regarding nspawn and such, is there a way for > pkexec to automatically detect if the user is already root and avoid the > dbus round trip and just assume things are authorised? This might be > dangerous in some o