I'm unsure as well, and given the fact that my gdm bug report is still listed as "UNCONFIRMED" after 4+ months, so I'm not too motivated/encouraged at this point to perform the legwork necessary to report this issue everywhere.
It also doesn't do a single thing to prevent future developers from making the same mistake. Like Derek, I also wonder if "allow_active" is *ever* appropriate to be used in favor of "allow_any" (at least by default). I did a search-and- replace on all files in that directory at one point, but I'm pretty sure that my changes have been slowly regressing as updated versions of the affected components are installed on my system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-tools-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221363 Title: Policy Kit Unlock Buttons Greyed Out when using NX / VNC / LTSP Status in FreeNX open source NX Server: Fix Released Status in GDM: The Gnome Display Manager: New Status in PolicyKit: Invalid Status in system-tools-backends: Fix Released Status in “policykit” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “policykit-1” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “system-tools-backends” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I installed 8.04 LTS server on a system. Then installed ubuntu- desktop using apt. Installed Nomachine's NX server and connected to it. The unlock buttons on Users and Groups or Network are greyed out and un-accessible. Tried running from a term 'sudo users-admin' with the same results. Works fine with VNC and NX "Shadow" session however this is not really acceptable as it means a session has to be running on console first. I have tried to enable every option in Authorizations to allow the remote session to have privileges to no avail. output of dpkg relevant packages: ii gnome-system-t 2.22.0-0ubuntu Cross-platform configuration utilities for G ii liboobs-1-4 2.22.0-0ubuntu GObject based interface to system-tools-back ii policykit 0.7-2ubuntu7 framework for managing administrative polici ii system-tools-b 2.6.0-0ubuntu7 System Tools to manage computer configuratio ================ == Workarounds == ================ 1) *Jaunty or older* From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit/+bug/238799/comments/16 (the packages from comment 24 are broken links now): I was able to get access via VNC tunneled through SSH by changing the following settings in policykit. You can do it locally via Authorizations, or you can do it remotely using "sudo ck-launch- session polkit-gnome-authorization" in a terminal window in your tunneled VNC session. This worked on Ubuntu 9.04 Server RC running xubuntu-desktop, so as always YMMV. For system configuration, change all implicit authorizations under org -> freedesktop -> systemtoolsbackends -> Manage System Configuration (org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.set) to "Admin Authentication." For user management, change all implicit authorizations under org -> freedesktop -> systemtoolsbackends -> self -> Change User Configuration (org.freedesktop.systemtoolsbackends.self.set) to "Authentication." Reset gdm by rebooting or running "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart" from a terminal window, and you should be able to unlock the user settings control panel and other similarly useful things through your tunneled VNC session. 2) *Karmic or newer* Apply this patch: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39471473/polkit-systemtools-remote-allow.patch # sudo cp -a /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.policy /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.policy.ori # sudo patch /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.policy polkit-systemtools-remote-allow.patch Then kill polkitd, it will be restarted automatically: # sudo pkill polkitd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/freenx-server/+bug/221363/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
