On 8/21/18 9:10 PM, Frank Zimmermann wrote:

Good evening,

for approx the last 2 days I noticed that the blueman applet and rfkill state request me to enter my password when logging in Gnome Shell. The following messages in my log might be of relevance:

Aug 21 20:49:56 defiant kernel: thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked Aug 21 20:49:56 defiant kernel: thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_wwan_sw: radio is unblocked Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8607] rfkill2: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:02:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill 2) (driver rtl8192se) Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8611] rfkill1: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill/rfkill1) (platform driver thinkpad_acpi) Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8616] manager[0x563e308de000]: rfkill: WiFi hardware radio set enabled Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8650] manager[0x563e308de000]: rfkill: WWAN hardware radio set enabled Aug 21 20:50:05 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877405.2145] manager: rfkill: WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Aug 21 20:50:05 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877405.2148] manager: rfkill: WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Aug 21 20:50:44 defiant dbus-daemon[633]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus- org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.87' (uid=1000 pid=1227 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-rfkill ") Aug 21 20:50:47 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled Aug 21 20:53:39 defiant polkitd[736]: Operator of unix-session:2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.blueman.rfkill.setstate for system-bus-name::1.186 [python /usr/bin/blueman-applet] (owned by unix-user:frank) Aug 21 21:05:10 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler enabled Aug 21 21:05:22 defiant dbus-daemon[633]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus- org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.675' (uid=1000 pid=4766 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-rfkill ") Aug 21 21:05:23 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled Aug 21 21:05:34 defiant polkitd[736]: Operator of unix-session:5 successfully authenticated as unix-user:frank to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.blueman.rfkill.setstate for system-bus- name::1.735 [python /usr/bin/blueman-applet] (owned by unix-user:frank)

Any ideas how to change this strange behavior?

Thanks Frank

You can drop a polkit config file in `/etc/polkit-1/rules.d` to authorize a group or user to access the action `org.blueman.rfkill.setstate`. See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit Regards, Rob -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org