Ahh. Here's a clue;

https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/09/09/freeipa-setting-polkit-policykit-rules-for-users-make-your-user-a-polkit-administrator-on-your-clients/

And of course, here;

https://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/FreeIPA_PolicyKit

I will try to fix it update this post.

Brian

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 2:42 PM Brian Watson | Watsontech.net <brian@watsontech.net> wrote:
For some reason it is trying to use a local user as the username... But the UID is correct.

brianw@fenix:~$ tail -n3  /var/log/auth.log
Apr 18 14:40:02 fenix polkit-agent-helper-1[2907]: pam_unix(polkit-1:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=386900000 euid=0 tty= ruser=ladmin rhost=  user=ladmin
Apr 18 14:40:02 fenix polkit-agent-helper-1[2907]: pam_sss(polkit-1:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=386900000 euid=0 tty= ruser=ladmin rhost= user=ladmin
Apr 18 14:40:02 fenix polkit-agent-helper-1[2907]: pam_sss(polkit-1:auth): received for user ladmin: 10 (User not known to the underlying authentication module)

~ Brian Watson | Have a great day!


On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:29 PM Sumit Bose via FreeIPA-users <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 07:49:40PM -0700, Brian Watson | Watsontech.net via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have freeipa server (centos7) setup. I installed freeipa-client on my KDE
> Neon laptop. I can sign in with my freeipa user and am able to use sudo.
> But when asked for password whilst doing KDE administration, it does not
> work.
>
> Any logs I should check?

Hi,

maybe you can check if there PAM related messages in /var/log/secure or
the journal around the time you are giving the password for KDE
administration. If e.g. a special PAM service is used by KDE and you are
using HBAC you might need to add this service to a rule which allows
access.

HTH

bye,
Sumit

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