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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello brainsail, or anyone else affected,

Accepted accountsservice into xenial-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/0.6.40-2ubuntu11 in
a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Also affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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

** No longer affects: indicator-messages (Ubuntu Xenial)

** No longer affects: policykit-1-gnome (Ubuntu Xenial)

** Changed in: accountsservice (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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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:
  Fix Released
Status in indicator-messages package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in policykit-1-gnome package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in accountsservice source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

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

  
  ----------------------

  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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