Re: polkit fails to authenticate on dbus

"karu.pruun" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?


Thanks. Yes connecting to the system bus but failing. I wonder where
in the polkitd code that UID string '34323934393637323935' is
computed? I wonder if the error is with polkitd computing the wrong
UID.

Peeter
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