<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello,<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><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><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default">I set these values as shown:<br><div><br></div> <defaults><br> <allow_any>yes</allow_any><br> <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive><br> <allow_active>yes</allow_active><br> </defaults></div></div></blockquote><div>This suggests that your session state is not matching what you see (it should be active, local==not remote). That is, either systemd’s loginctl or ConsoleKit, depending against which one polkit is compiled in your distribution, is not considering you a local active user.<br></div><div> Mirek<br></div></div></body></html>