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[Allison Ryan Lortie <desrt@xxxxxxxx>]

Although I agree that it makes sense to allow the user to modify their
own data even if not "actively logged in", I think it would also be
interesting to track down the program that is the real source of this
problem.  ie: let's figure out which part of the session is writing to
accountsservice at random times...

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

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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