Hi! When pkcon is run in a non-X11 environment without a polkit-agent running, it should spawn a pkttyagent process to handle authorization requests. Making polkit recommended by PackageKit seems like a good idea though (some people don't want polkit installed, and it pulls in lots of stuff too).
Can you maybe investigate why pkttyagent doesn't handle authorization? Is the tool installed (it is part of polkit-1...)? Is it spawned on demand? Does it work locally, if you're not using ssh? Cheers, Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org