udisks2 ATA power check triggers authentication prompt on inactive users

[notpeelz]

As per the org.freedesktop.udisks2.ata-check-power UDisks2 Polkit policy, ATA power-check calls from inactive users require privilege elevation.

The udisks_drive_ata_call_pm_get_state_finish call in plugins/udisks2/is-udisks2-plugin.c triggers the said privilege elevation, thus causing several authentication prompts to appear after unlocking the session.

Edit: it also seems to occur with udisks_drive_ata_call_smart_update_finish and a couple other methods, hence the several authentication prompts showing up after unlocking.

[alexmurray]

Is this still occurring?

[notpeelz]

Still occurs. Tested with release 1.1 (2a00714) on my old dusty laptop running Ubuntu Xenial (16.04 LTS).

[alexmurray]

Can you confirm which desktop environment you are running and whether you are using the snap or if you built this yourself (or whatever means you used to install indicator-sensors)?

[notpeelz]

Running on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Unity DE.

This is how I tested it:

git clone https://github.com/alexmurray/indicator-sensors.git && cd indicator-sensors
git reset --hard 2a00714be9b85f503a6d04bd9edc2a128c02762c
./autogen && sudo make install
/usr/local/bin/indicator-sensors