Can no longer authenticate programs as sudo

altiris · 2015-07-03 13:54:28

Since the last update, I am assuming its mostly the polkit (0.112-3 -> 0.112-4) transition, I can no longer enter my password to authenticate certain apps as root, I just get "Authentication Failed".

EDIT: Yup, downgraded to polkit 0.112-3 and now it works so 0.112-4 is the problem.

Last edited by altiris (2015-07-03 13:57:33)

Trilby · 2015-07-03 13:57:54

polkit and sudo are not the same thing. What "apps" fail? Do you actually use sudo before the program name?

brix · 2015-07-03 16:07:43

Had the same issue. Logged out and in again -- still didn't work. Rebooted -- problem solved.

altiris · 2015-07-04 19:56:35

Trilby wrote:

polkit and sudo are not the same thing. What "apps" fail? Do you actually use sudo before the program name?

Pretty much anything that required sudo privileges, so pamac, Users & groups cinnamon system settings, launching nemo as root..pretty much anything really. I will try upgrading polkit and rebooting and see if that does anything.

falconindy · 2015-07-04 20:57:42

altiris wrote:

Trilby wrote:
polkit and sudo are not the same thing. What "apps" fail? Do you actually use sudo before the program name?
Pretty much anything that required sudo privileges, so pamac, Users & groups cinnamon system settings, launching nemo as root..pretty much anything really. I will try upgrading polkit and rebooting and see if that does anything.

You mention pamac -- are you using manjaro or something else that isn't actually Arch?

Last edited by falconindy (2015-07-04 21:00:51)

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Can no longer authenticate programs as sudo

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Re: Can no longer authenticate programs as sudo

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