howdy: Integration of howdy with gnome polkit doesn't work

Hello,

I tryed to add howdy to polkit but it doesn’t work, could you help me please ?

/etc/pam.d/polkit-1

auth       sufficient   pam_python.so /lib64/security/howdy/pam.py
auth       include      system-auth
account    include      system-auth
password   include      system-auth
session    include      system-auth

Linux distribution: Fedora 35

Howdy version: 2.6.1

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 16 (4 by maintainers)

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I continued my tests and the problem is not that polkit is “impatient”; if I execute in the Howdy’s pam script (pam.py) a simple “sleep 4” using a shell subprocess, polkit waits for the end of the 4 seconds.

I have two hypotheses to check, the Howdy’s comparison script (compare.py)

is not allowed to run and so the process is killed and recalled
crashes for some reason and it is recalled

The second point seems easy to check, I’ll do that another time. Also, let me know if I’m sending a bit too much message, but I’d rather detail what eventually someone finds the solution.

EmixamPP on Jul 14, 2022

And btw, your title is misleading, since everyone would assume it’s not working at all. Just try to be more precise.

ad-on-is on Jan 16, 2022