<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I recently wrote regarding the constant stream of unwarranted <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">authorizations I encountered after the latest software update<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to 14.10... and when no answer was immediately forthcoming,<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I attacked the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">file and tried different values for <action id="org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data">;<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I set these values as shown:<br><br>    <defaults><br>      <allow_any>yes</allow_any><br>      <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive><br>      <allow_active>yes</allow_active><br>    </defaults><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I saved the file, did a ps, and killed the running polkitd process.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The "Authorization Required" messages ceased.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Blissful, blessed silence! <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">BTW, Every time my "variety" traded wallpapers, I'd get one of the<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Authorization Required dialogs. I'm not certain what other things produced<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">such events.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">murf</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br>Steve Murphy<br>ParseTree Corporation<br><br><br></div><div><b>The Beginning of the End:</b><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks" target="_blank">Civil Forfeiture: Police turn from Protectors to Predators</a><br></div><div><a href="http://2tellthewholetruth.blogspot.com/?view=classic" target="_blank">Corporate Vigilantism  & Use of Psychological Torture</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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