Bug #101369 for Net-DBus:

I have a problem using dbus for services. If i run systemctl start service_name.service dialog asking for password comes up and it seems to work. From the log it seems the action is org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units Looking at systemctl code on github https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/systemctl/systemctl.c I found a line: r = sd_bus_message_set_allow_interactive_authorization(m, arg_ask_password); invoked before sending the action message. So it seems they set they set the "allow interactive authorization" flag before. If I use a perl script invoking dbus api (I used http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/dbus/ for API explanation, and perl Net::DBus to access to) I got the following exception as result org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InteractiveAuthorizationRequired: Interactive authentication required That indeed should confirm the need of setting that flag. Any helps how to set that flag? The perl example that starts xinetd (change it accord to your system) is at http://pastebin.com/GjtWJsRL Thanks Angelo