PolicyKit: Branch 'master'

David Zeuthen david at kemper.freedesktop.org
Tue Sep 18 11:48:54 PDT 2012


 src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit fa04223240d46641b0773dbf9f7d72f529046bea
Author: David Zeuthen <zeuthen at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 18 14:47:06 2012 -0400

    Fall back to authenticating as uid 0 if the list of admin identities is empty
    
    For example, this can happen if the wheel group has no members. This
    was reported in Red Hat bug 834494, see
    
     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834494
    
    Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <zeuthen at gmail.com>

diff --git a/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c b/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c
index 1d4a555..3bd2f0b 100644
--- a/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c
+++ b/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c
@@ -1293,15 +1293,11 @@ polkit_backend_interactive_authority_get_admin_identities (PolkitBackendInteract
                                                            PolkitDetails                     *details)
 {
   PolkitBackendInteractiveAuthorityClass *klass;
-  GList *ret;
+  GList *ret = NULL;
 
   klass = POLKIT_BACKEND_INTERACTIVE_AUTHORITY_GET_CLASS (authority);
 
-  if (klass->get_admin_identities == NULL)
-    {
-      ret = g_list_prepend (NULL, polkit_unix_user_new (0));
-    }
-  else
+  if (klass->get_admin_identities != NULL)
     {
       ret = klass->get_admin_identities (authority,
                                          caller,
@@ -2257,6 +2253,10 @@ authentication_agent_initiate_challenge (AuthenticationAgent         *agent,
         }
     }
 
+  /* Fall back to uid 0 if no users are available (rhbz #834494) */
+  if (user_identities == NULL)
+    user_identities = g_list_prepend (NULL, polkit_unix_user_new (0));
+
   session = authentication_session_new (agent,
                                         cookie,
                                         subject,


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