Struggling with the same thing on a school with around 60 laptops
connecting to a NFS server via LDAP and autofs. I have had some other
problems that have arose because of this. For instance a Network Manager
bug that disabled the wifi card if the laptop went into
hibernation/suspend. Of course thi
Isn't this bug fixed yet in 10.04? It's a very serious bug when you have
many computers that need to be connected to a wifi automatically, with
no user intervention. I might try the hard workaround of removing all
write permissions on that file, but I don't like that sort of dirty
hacks to make it
Thank you, Andreas, the setuid patch did the trick for me.
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Policykit authentication fails with 'Error.Failed: Only uid 0 may invoke this
method.'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439552
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Thanks, that did it. Now I got that error message too ;-) I'll have to
try to apply that patch somehow, then. If there's no pending update
around the corner.
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Policykit authentication fails with 'Error.Failed: Only uid 0 may invoke this
method.'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439552
You recei
Actually, I haven't seen the "only uid 0..." message anywhere. Would it
be in syslog?
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Policykit authentication fails with 'Error.Failed: Only uid 0 may invoke this
method.'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439552
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Bugs, which
I've got the same problem on computers that have got a fresh install,
but that have had their LDAP configuration updated from a puppetmaster
server. The problem appeared after I set up LDAP/PAM authentication on
the computers. The error message from /var/log/messages:
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