polkitAgent: Use dialog as confirmation when the user has no password

When a user has no password and a polkit authentication is started,
instead of blindly initiating the admin session, show the regular
"Authentication Requested" dialog (but without the password entry). This
makes sure that the user's admin session is only effectively started
after the user chooses to proceed with the authentication, which
provides an extra confirmation step that can be vital for critical
tasks.

To do this, we show the dialog inside `_onUserChanged()` right after the
dialog was created instead of calling `performAuthentication()` from
`_onInitiate()`. The bug mentioned in `_onInitiate()` is no longer an
issue since we show the dialog in all cases now anyway.

Ideally we should use a different wording than "authentication" when the
user has no password set, and use "confirmation" instead. However polkit
already sends the requests with such messages (e.g. "Authentication is
required to configure software repositories"), and it's important to
show those to the user, so this patch keeps the regular wording.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/829

diff --git a/js/ui/components/polkitAgent.js b/js/ui/components/polkitAgent.js
index 1817aac05fb85da37b020dcf1c1c03b607a09811..05d4682cd36b277f24580dc9819962a3d12f19ce 100644 (file)
--- a/js/ui/components/polkitAgent.js
+++ b/js/ui/components/polkitAgent.js
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ const ModalDialog = imports.ui.modalDialog;
 const ShellEntry = imports.ui.shellEntry;
 const UserWidget = imports.ui.userWidget;
 
+const DialogMode = {
+    AUTH: 0,
+    CONFIRM: 1,
+};
+
 var DIALOG_ICON_SIZE = 48;
 
 var WORK_SPINNER_ICON_SIZE = 16;
@@ -79,12 +84,6 @@ var AuthenticationDialog = GObject.registerClass({
 
         userBox.add_child(this._userLabel);
 
-        this._userLoadedId = this._user.connect('notify::is-loaded',
-                                                this._onUserChanged.bind(this));
-        this._userChangedId = this._user.connect('changed',
-                                                 this._onUserChanged.bind(this));
-        this._onUserChanged();
-
         this._passwordBox = new St.BoxLayout({ vertical: false, style_class: 'prompt-dialog-password-box' });
         content.messageBox.add(this._passwordBox);
         this._passwordLabel = new St.Label({
@@ -150,8 +149,16 @@ var AuthenticationDialog = GObject.registerClass({
 
         this._doneEmitted = false;
 
+        this._mode = -1;
+
         this._identityToAuth = Polkit.UnixUser.new_for_name(userName);
         this._cookie = cookie;
+
+        this._userLoadedId = this._user.connect('notify::is-loaded',
+            this._onUserChanged.bind(this));
+        this._userChangedId = this._user.connect('changed',
+            this._onUserChanged.bind(this));
+        this._onUserChanged();
     }
 
     _setWorking(working) {
@@ -161,7 +168,7 @@ var AuthenticationDialog = GObject.registerClass({
             this._workSpinner.stop();
     }
 
-    performAuthentication() {
+    _initiateSession() {
         this._destroySession(DELAYED_RESET_TIMEOUT);
 
         this._session = new PolkitAgent.Session({ identity: this._identityToAuth,
@@ -220,7 +227,10 @@ var AuthenticationDialog = GObject.registerClass({
     }
 
     _onAuthenticateButtonPressed() {
-        this._onEntryActivate();
+        if (this._mode === DialogMode.CONFIRM)
+            this._initiateSession();
+        else
+            this._onEntryActivate();
     }
 
     _onSessionCompleted(session, gainedAuthorization) {
@@ -251,7 +261,7 @@ var AuthenticationDialog = GObject.registerClass({
             }
 
             /* Try and authenticate again */
-            this.performAuthentication();
+            this._initiateSession();
         }
     }
 
@@ -346,6 +356,28 @@ var AuthenticationDialog = GObject.registerClass({
             this._userLabel.set_text(realName);
 
         this._userAvatar.update();
+
+        if (this._user.get_password_mode() === AccountsService.UserPasswordMode.NONE) {
+            if (this._mode === DialogMode.CONFIRM)
+                return;
+
+            this._mode = DialogMode.CONFIRM;
+            this._destroySession();
+
+            this._okButton.reactive = true;
+
+            /* We normally open the dialog when we get a "request" signal, but
+             * since in this case initiating a session would perform the
+             * authentication, only open the dialog and initiate the session
+             * when the user confirmed. */
+            this._ensureOpen();
+        } else {
+            if (this._mode === DialogMode.AUTH)
+                return;
+
+            this._mode = DialogMode.AUTH;
+            this._initiateSession();
+        }
     }
 
     cancel() {
@@ -412,19 +444,7 @@ class AuthenticationAgent extends Shell.PolkitAuthenticationAgent {
         }
 
         this._currentDialog = new AuthenticationDialog(actionId, message, cookie, userNames);
-
-        // We actually don't want to open the dialog until we know for
-        // sure that we're going to interact with the user. For
-        // example, if the password for the identity to auth is blank
-        // (which it will be on a live CD) then there will be no
-        // conversation at all... of course, we don't *know* that
-        // until we actually try it.
-        //
-        // See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643062 for more
-        // discussion.
-
         this._currentDialog.connect('done', this._onDialogDone.bind(this));
-        this._currentDialog.performAuthentication();
     }
 
     _onCancel(_nativeAgent) {