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khvalera

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In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

For some users, the root password request dialog no longer appears. For example, the partitionmanager program:

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Has anyone encountered such a problem?

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V1del

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Re: In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

Worksforme™

Who are "some" users? Generally speaking they need to be part of the wheel group to be considered by polkit by default. Is polkit running/how about an agent?

ps aux | grep polkit

generally read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit to understand the conditions necessary.

khvalera

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Re: In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

Who are "some" users?

Two users in the system, with completely identical rights, one has a dialog box, the other does not.

ps aux | grep polkit

polkitd      734  0.1  0.0 384268 11564 ?        Ssl  20:52   0:01 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug
user1          1214  0.7  0.2 3735744 176084 ?      Ssl  21:11   0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1

khvalera

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Re: In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

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Generally speaking they need to be part of the wheel group to be considered by polkit by default.

Both users are in the wheel group

The problem appeared a couple of weeks ago, after system updates. The user who was present in the system works correctly, but the new one does not.

V1del

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Re: In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

I'm assuming user1 is the one where it's working. Do both use KDE? Do both use the system at the same time? Did you check the journal?

seth

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Re: In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

For example, the partitionmanager program

For a better example, use

pkexec ls

as test case.

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khvalera

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Re: In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

For example, the partitionmanager program

For a better example, use

pkexec ls

as test case.

If you run the command manually:

pkexec ls

no problem

seth

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Re: In KDE Plasma, some users do not get the password dialog box

Ok, what is "the partitionmanager program" and what are other examples of disfuncitonal polkit clients?

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