I'm not sure why this doesn't work, as other parts of the code do the same. However, this is not what you want anyway: This check would already authenticate, i. e. you would get a password prompt right at the startup of l-s just for checking if you are an administrator. Instead, this should query polkit in "no interactivity" mode (no POLKIT_CHECK_AUTHORIZATION_FLAGS_ALLOW_USER_INTERACTION), and check if it gets a "no but you can authorize" result (sorry, can't research the details here).
But with polkit we can probably just drop the whole is_admin check completely. If a non-admin user is starting l-s, the polkit dialog will still allow you to authenticate as another user who is an admin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008344 Title: checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/1008344/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
