[Bug 1821415] Re: pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment

[Kees Bakker]

Can we raise the importance please? It is quite essential to let
unprivileged users run certain commands, even if there is not GUI.

Also, it is very confusing when everything is configured correctly, plus
the password is correct, and then to get the message "Not authorized",
"This incident has been reported."

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Title:
  pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment

Status in PolicyKit:
  New
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The plymouth apport source package hooks wants to gather log files as
  the root user and apport provides a policy kit policy for collecting
  that information. This works fine in a graphical environment but not
  in a non-graphical one.

  N.B. you first need to create a /var/log/plymouth-debug.log file for
  the plymouth apport package hook to actually trigger this.

  ubuntu at disco:~$ ubuntu-bug plymouth

  *** Collecting problem information

  The collected information can be sent to the developers to improve the
  application. This might take a few minutes.
  ..........==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.apport.root-info ===
  Authentication is required to collect system information for this problem report
  Authenticating as: Ubuntu (ubuntu)
  Password: ....
  polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie
  ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
  Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

  This incident has been reported.

  Subsequently, bug reports from servers will contain less information.

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