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-rw-r--r--src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c b/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c
index cf3c8ad5a3..7dae4d14fe 100644
--- a/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c
+++ b/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ int polkit_agent_open(void) {
if (agent_pid > 0)
return 0;
+ /* Clients that run as root don't need to activate/query polkit */
+ if (geteuid() == 0)
+ return 0;
+
/* We check STDIN here, not STDOUT, since this is about input,
* not output */
if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO))