Why Polkit-agent-helper-1 timeout leaves tty echo disabled?
Issue
- If one don't provide the password while authenticating through
polkit
, it does not return the shell back. - It should give us the terminal back by giving authentication error.
- Unless resetting the bash shell using
reset
command, it will not echo back anything on the terminal.
[suresh@host ~]$ hostnamectl set-hostname suresh
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.hostname1.set-static-hostname ===
Authentication is required to set the statically configured local host name, as well as the pretty host name.
Authenticating as: root
Password: Could not set property: Connection timed out
[suresh@host ~]$ polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- polkit-0.112-6.el7_2.x86_64
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