Bug #12546

GNOME caches the administrative password differently than our sudo configuration

Added by anonym 2017-05-16 10:52:44 . Updated 2018-09-13 17:57:11 .

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Normal
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2017-05-16
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Description

We configure sudo to not cache the administration password, but when GNOME is provided the password e.g. for opening a disk, the disk can be remounted after it has been ejected without providing the password again.

This can probably be fixed by altering some polkit configuration in a live session (hence I mark this ticket “Easy”).

This affects both in 2.x and 3.x.

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#1 Updated by groovefest 2018-09-13 17:57:11

Polkit authorization is cached for 5 minutes (a hardcoded value). I’ve opened an issue in the upstream polkit project https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/issues/71