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[Alkis Georgopoulos <1512002@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's another way to reproduce it:

<install openssh-server>
$ ssh -X localhost
$ /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
$ dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1001 org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetXHasMessages boolean:true

It doesn't make sense to have the user authenticate himself just to tell him he has new mail.
This affects gnome-screensaver, lightdm's user switching ability, X2go, LTSP etc.

Please replace the "auth_self" with "yes" as in the provided patch.

** Patch added: "change-own-user-data.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1512002/+attachment/4632965/+files/change-own-user-data.patch

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

Status in accountsservice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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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