"Authentication required to register as a sysroot client"

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Almost every time I switch between user accounts I’ll get a pop(s) up that says “Authentication required to register as a sysroot client” and it asks for the password of my admin account even if I am logged into the admin account, if I click cancel nothing happens but if I put in the admin password nothing also happens how do I get this to stop? It will sometimes appear once or multiple times in a row after canceling or putting in the password.

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Likely Gnome Software trying to auto update your system.

Disable from Gnome Software settings and check if it comes back, it will still work if you check manually.

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Hello this worked but is there a way to have auto updates and not have the pop up?

4

I put the following into /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/42-armin.rules:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
	if (action.id == "org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.client-management" || action.id == "org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.repo-refresh" || action.id == "org.freedesktop.Flatpak.metadata-update") {
		return polkit.Result.YES;
	}
});

(edited to prevent someone copy’n’pasting my previous faulty code)

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Thank you this seems to have fixed it while letting me keep auto updates

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I’ve noticed that this also disabled the password prompt for basically everything else including stuff like user management and breaks parental control completely

This fixes it

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
        if (action.id == "org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.client-management" ||
            action.id == "org.projectatomic.rpmostree1.repo-refresh" ||
            action.id == "org.freedesktop.Flatpak.metadata-update") {
                return polkit.Result.YES;
        }
});
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I would recommend using either AutomaticUpdatePolicy=check for only checking for updates or AutomaticUpdatePolicy=stage for auto updates on /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf and enabling the timer with systemctl enable rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer --now

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I’ve had that enabled but I also wanted flatpaks to auto update so I wouldn’t have to worry about it at all.