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This bug was fixed in the package accountsservice - 0.6.40-2ubuntu12

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accountsservice (0.6.40-2ubuntu12) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/change-own-data-inactive.patch:
    - updated to use allow_any=yes to avoid displaying unndeed dialog for
      remote sessions as well, thanks Alkis Georgopoulos
      (lp: #1512002)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128@xxxxxxxxxx>  Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:15:39
+0200

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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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:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  * Impact

  Sometimes useless "Authentication is required to change your own user
  data" prompts are displayed

  * Test case

  <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

  that shouldn't trigger a prompt

  * Regression potential

  it allows the change to be done without prompting in more cases,
  shouldn't have an impact on cases which were already working

  
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  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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