A few days ago, polkit version 0.113 was marked stable on Gentoo amd64. Since the update, I could no longer suspend my system without entering the root password. Quite annoying, especially for a laptop. When canceling the polkit dialog, this appeared in the journal (yes, I am using systemd):
sep 10 05:22:52 sylvester.nomad.adlevio.net polkitd[18113]: Operator of unix-session:3 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.login1.suspend for system-bus-name::1.96 [kded5 [kdeinit5]] (owned by unix-user:stijn)
While I don't think this is something I should be fixing manually on a modern desktop system, I just wanted a quick fix and be done with it. Turned out to be easy. Just adding a file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/85-suspend.rules
with this content fixed it:
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (action.id == "org.freedesktop.login1.suspend" &&
subject.isInGroup("users")) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});
Cheers