Ubuntu
policykit-desktop-privileges package

  1. Bug #1240336
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1240336

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Rob Frohne (frohro) wrote : Re: Not authorized to perform operation....

Well, Dimitri's solution in #9 above didn't help my situation, so maybe there are several causes of the same symptom. The /etc/pam.d/lightdm file I had in Ubuntu 13.04 is the same as what I started with in 13.10.