I get this message at boot time on the T430.
Not really sure why or what it is for.
Details
Action: org.freedesktop.policykit.exec
Vendor: The PolicyKit Project
Could it be from trials and removing unused apps?
I'll keep running without Authentication and see if I get others.
Just noticed this morning.
Turned off Dropbox, since no broadband --wifi connection is via Android hotspot, and the question doesn't appear?
NOTE: rebooted, no message but external mouse stopped working. :(
NOTE2: rebooted again, signed in, all is working as expected.
Thanks for you ideas and reading.
Seems I'm the only one to have seen this,
so it is reasonable to assume that it is a local problem, so I'll mark this as Resolved. :)
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"Authentication needed to run `/bin/sh' as super user" RESOLVED
"Authentication needed to run `/bin/sh' as super user" RESOLVED
Thinkpad T430 & Dell Latitude E7450, both with MX-21.3.1
kernal 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64; Xfce-4.18.0; 8 GB RAM
Intel Core i5-3380M, Graphics, Audio, Video; & SSDs.
kernal 5.10.0-26-amd64 x86_64; Xfce-4.18.0; 8 GB RAM
Intel Core i5-3380M, Graphics, Audio, Video; & SSDs.
Re: "Authentication needed to run `/bin/sh' as super user" RESOLVED
I recently just started getting this popup as well, and you were the top search result, did you every figure it out? I also recently installed dropbox, so my guess is it might be related.
the relevant processes that I see related are these:
looking at the man pages for polkitd and pklocalauthority it doesn't seem clear why it needs root authentication, so I have been clicking cancel as well, but would like to know why this popped up
the relevant processes that I see related are these:
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root 4070 1 0 12:51 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd --no-debug
demo 5264 4250 0 12:51 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
root 6180 5264 0 12:52 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1 root
Re: "Authentication needed to run `/bin/sh' as super user" RESOLVED
seems like it is likely dropbox related from a bit of searching around non-mx specific distros. it seems like it either has to do with the auto-update mechanism or permissions within dropbox.
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm ... o_on_boot/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1062568 ... super-user
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dr ... ic_updates
in my case I found a root owned backup of an fstab file that I put in my Dropbox structure for archive and I'm going to move that out to see if that fixes things.
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm ... o_on_boot/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1062568 ... super-user
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dr ... ic_updates
in my case I found a root owned backup of an fstab file that I put in my Dropbox structure for archive and I'm going to move that out to see if that fixes things.