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On 2016-04-11T17:14:30+00:00 Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:

Currently, data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy.in specifies that a user
must be active in order to set his own data.

X2go, LTSP etc users are considered remote, i.e. inactive, and they are not allowed to change their own user data without authentication.
This results in a different behaviour when they e.g. try to change their language in the `gnome-control-center user-accounts`.

Furthermore, in some distributions it has been observed that change-own-
user-data authentication dialogs popup when changing VTs or when
switching users or sometimes even with just gnome-screensaver, possibly
because the distribution is trying to update the user data (e.g. to
notify the UI that he has new mails) when the user's vt was not active.

Therefore I'd like to ask you to consider setting
<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive> for change-own-user-data.

Ubuntu bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+bug/1512002

Thanks!

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1-gnome/+bug/1512002/comments/37


** Changed in: accountsservice
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: accountsservice
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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

Status in accountsservice:
  Confirmed
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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