Show what for users password is needed.

[manu3l]

As written in a downstream bug, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12145
mate-polkit doesn't show if the needed password is an users or the root one. Other polkit agent like the Gnome one show an avater.

A simple text could be enough.

Thanks

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[manu3l]

[infirit]

Hmm, you do not say what command/application you try to run that needs elevated privileges. And my French is terrible ;). I did look at how this shows in fedora 20 and it indeed does not show which user which indicates to me it wants the user's password :).

For me it states clearly it needs the root password.

[manu3l]

It is a soft inside Mageia to updates packages. The polkit policy is here: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/rpmdrake/tree/polkit/org.mageia.drakrpm-update.policy.in

"For me it states clearly it needs the root password." In which distrib ? Btw if you didn't see I'm on mate-polkit 1.6.0, don't know what is Fedora using.

For the text,
"An Application is is attempting to perform an action tha requires privileges. Auhthentification is required to perform this action."
"Mot de passe" means "password".

[infirit]

I see you use auth_self_keep which means ask the password for the owner of the session. In gentoo the default used for most of these is auth_admin which typically is root. Do notice that for me it asks super user privileges and in your example it does not. IOW, it does say when it needs super user (or root) privileges.

I can imagine this may be confusing so making it explicit which user's password is requested is not a bad idea.

[manu3l]

In fact other are also auth_admin http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/rpmdrake/tree/polkit/org.mageia.drakrpm-addmedia.policy.in

But for this one per design it's user abilities. So the issue looks valid if the asked password is from another user than root. Will check latter on my side with other policy present here.

[flexiondotorg]

@leuhmanu Is it possible this is purely a translation related issue? Can check the strings original Englsi hstrings against the translated French at Transifex - https://www.transifex.com/organization/mate/dashboard/MATE

[raveit65]

@manu3l
Is this issue still exists with french translation?

[hickford]

Yes please to a clearer message! When I see the 'authentication is required' dialog I never know whether to type the root password or my own password (I use both su and sudo in the terminal).

An application is attempting to perform an action that requires privileges. Authentication is required to perform this action. Password:

To me that suggests it wants the root password, but testing it now, it actually wants my user password. Ideally the message would be idiotproof in clarify:

Authentication is required to perform this action. Your password:

or

Authentication is required to perform this action. Password for user tim:

[hickford]

Alternatively the message could mention the word 'sudo'. Anything that at a glance would tell me to type my password rather than root's password.

[lukefromdc]

Question: how many people are using MATE that don't know the sudo password is their password and not the root password? My sister would never know the difference, this sort of thing gets me phone calls for support.

[hickford]

@lukefromdc Good point. Do you think my first suggestion would be clear?

Authentication is required to perform this action. Your password:

[lukefromdc]

This would work fine for most people, who by automatic habit would use their normal password