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Re: Polkit: prompt for root password



Am 01.09.2015 um 20:29 schrieb Jayson Willson:
> Thank you for your advice, I have found the way:
> Comment out file
> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-debian-sudo.conf, which overrides
> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf and makes
> polkit consider members of "sudo" groups as administrators.

So you user was in group "sudo", having admin privileges.
Just curious: why do you then want to prompt for the root password and
not the user password for that user?


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