Déjà Dup

question for autorizattion at restore not recognizable as deja dup

Bug #1135631 reported by Willy-Bas Loos on 2013-02-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1674121: "Restore" asks for cryptic authentication to run /bin/sh as superuser. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Déjà Dup	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned
	deja-dup (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

when i restore a file with deja-dup, there is a popup window that asks for root privileges to run /bin/sh. There is no recognizable connection to deja-dup except for the moment in which this occurs.
Would it be possible to anounce the source of the question in the "details" section or in any other way?

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Willy-Bas Loos (willybas) wrote on 2013-02-28:

deja-dup.gsettings Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

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Private Security → Public Security

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Willy-Bas Loos (willybas) wrote on 2013-03-04:

screenshot Edit (27.8 KiB, image/png)

Here's a screenshot of the dialog that appears

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2013-03-04:

Confirming, but setting Low priority since this only appears when restoring files outside of $HOME, which isn't very common for Deja Dup's primary use case.

To fix this, we'd need to provide a small helper script and a policykit policy file to provide a nicer explanation of what's going on.