polkit fails to authenticate on dbus

Tue Jan 20 14:07:21 PST 2015

On Tuesday 20 January 2015 20:48:52 karu.pruun wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what does the argument ('30' in the FreeBSD case
> and '34323934393637323935' in the DragonFly) in the EXTERNAL
> authentication protocol of dbus stand for?

It's the hex encoding of the UID, in decimal

	30					= "0"			= root
	34323934393637323935 = "4294967295"	= probably "nobody"

Are you connecting to the system bus?
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