According to a gitlab Commit 18381573 authored 2 years ago by Alberto Mardegan: https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/signond/commit/18381573beaa4efe5b115ccdf3b3a689e98a72c6
signond: remove warning about not being root Usually signond doesn't run as root; if necessary, this warning can be moved to an extension. This change made it into signon 8.57+15.10.20150616-0ubuntu1 so it should be fixed in wily -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to signon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1182007 Title: Failed to SUID root Status in signon package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: signond[7451]: ../../../../src/signond/signondaemon.cpp 360 init Failed to SUID root. Secure storage will not be available. This report appears in syslog each time Empathy tries and fails to connect to Google Talk using the google-talkplugin interface. It is not clear whether this SUID report is related to the Empathy failure. See bug #1168582 "Google talk "Requires Authorization" after suspend/resume" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/signon/+bug/1182007/+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