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["Scott I. Remick" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been experiencing this same bug for a few Xubuntu versions now. I'm
not sure if it's fully/always related to bug# 316691 as I don't do any
sort of network authentication here and never have. Been scouring the
internet for ages now looking for a solution... all I've seen so far are
hacks that seem unsafe and not recommended, or potential fixes that
didn't fix things for me. Meanwhile the number of users affected (going
by public posting locatable via Google searches) seem to be growing
monthly... considerably more than who are lucky enough to stumble upon
this bug and are participating here.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512002

Title:
  Annoying dialog "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data"

Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Every few days a dialog pops up saying "Authentication is required to change your own user data" with an entry field for a password. If I type my user's password the dialog will reappear with an empty entry field. If I click on the cross to close the window many times it will be gone, but reappear a few days later. I don't know what this window is for and it makes no difference whether I close it or leave it. I don't use the gnome keyring.
  This started with Ubuntu 15.04 or maybe with an earlier release, and is still there in Ubuntu 15.10, also on machines I did a fresh install.

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