Manjaro Cinnamon with fingerprint-gui

[nrde]

Hi everyone,

i installed fingerprint-gui on Manjaro with Cinnamon.
There is a step by step guide to do this.
http://www.ullrich-online.cc/fingerprin ... anual.html
LightDM Login and sudo integration works great...

... but i failed to configure polkit authentication.
(Polkit popups when starting system apps like GParted)

Cinnamon used polkit-gnome as default authentication agent for policykit based authentication.
Fingerprint-polkit-agent conflicts with the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.

The guide says:

For authenticating by policykit-1 a polkit authentication agent must run in every user's session. Therefore the file “fingerprint-polkit-agent.desktop” is installed to /etc/xdg/autostart/ by “sudo make install”. This file starts the fingerprint-polkit-agent when a user session is started. But the fingerprint-polkit-agent conflicts with the “polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1” or the “polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1” that are installed by default on your system. To solve this conflict remove the “polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop” or “polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1.desktop” file from the directory /etc/xdg/autostart/.

Disabling should be a easy thing,
but /etc/xdg/autostart contains no polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop file.

How is this agent started?
Any Ideas?

(Manjaro cummunity has no idea )

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$ pstree -s -p 1126
systemd(1)───lightdm(499)───lightdm(809)───cinnamon-sessio(860)───polkit-gnome-+

[Moem]

Mod note:
Moved to Chat because this is not about Mint. We don't really support Manjaro here, but who knows. Good luck!

[gm10]

If it helps, this is how it looks in Mint, maybe that sets you on the right track:

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$ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Comment=PolicyKit Authentication Agent
Exec=/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;Unity;X-Cinnamon;
X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
AutostartCondition=GNOME3 unless-session gnome
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=polkit-gnome-1

Good luck. And check with a Manjaro Cinnamon live USB/VM because I have trouble imagining that they wouldn't have set this up correctly already, so you may simply have a broken install.

[nrde]

Interesting idea!
Created missing polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop file and added following line:

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X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

After reboot, polkit-gnome was not started.
Now fingerprint-polkit-agent starts but ignores the sensor.

Last option is using polkit-gnome with fprintd by simple adding

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auth      sufficient pam_fprintd.so

to /etc/pam.d/polkit-1.
fprintd is very rudimentary but at least it works.