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[Alkis Georgopoulos <1512002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mterry, charlesk, I took the liberty of subscribing you because I think it involves this commit:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/indicator-messages/tell-accounts-services/+merge/93290

The issue is happening to me as well, on Ubuntu 16.04 gnome-flashback, in 2 cases:
1) sometimes when I try to unlock the screensaver,
2) sometimes when I login via ltsp thin/fat clients.

I think the problem is the one mentioned by khadgaray in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-
messages/+bug/1192300.

I.e. that the system is trying to notify us if we have new mails etc,
and that for some reason(s) it's considering us an "inactive user"
(inactive means not in the active screen of the pc, either remote or in
a screensaver etc) and thus we need authentication.

The necessary rights are defined in this file:
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy

  <action id="org.freedesktop.accounts.change-own-user-data">
...
    <defaults>
      <allow_any>auth_self</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>auth_self</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
    </defaults>
...

I think that if we change "<allow_inactive>auth_self</allow_inactive>"
to "<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>",
we'll have a temporary workaround to the problem.

But the real issue is, should the system consider us "inactive" in the screen saver?
Should it consider us inactive in ltsp thin clients that are remote sessions?
Should it consider us inactive in ltsp fat clients where accountsservice doesn't have information about the remote user account? (similar with ldap)

If the answer to the above is yes, then maybe the workaround that I
mentioned above should be committed to accountsservice?

** Also affects: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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

Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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