This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu11
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accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu11) xenial; urgency=medium
* debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
- updated to use allow_any=yes to avoid displaying unndeed dialog for
remote sessions as well, thanks Alkis Georgopoulos
(lp: #1512002)
-- Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:15:39
+0200
** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
data"
Status in accountsservice:
Confirmed
Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
Fix Released
Bug description:
* Impact
Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
data" prompts are displayed
* Test case
<install openssh-server>
$ ssh -X localhost
$ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
$ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001
org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true
that shouldn't trigger a prompt
* Regression potential
it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working
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Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change
your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's
password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the
cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days
later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether
I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still
there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.
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