How to solve authentication error in my ubuntu version 18.04?

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Due to this problem i can't download a single app. Please help me to solve this problem
THE ERROR MESSAGE IS
"Incorrect permission on/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1(need to setuid root)"
authentication
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Due to this problem i can't download a single app. Please help me to solve this problem
THE ERROR MESSAGE IS
"Incorrect permission on/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1(need to setuid root)"
authentication
1
Did you do something to your system just before this started to happen? If you strred your system with aroot
stick, playing whack-a-mole with the aftereffects isn't worth the effort.
– waltinator
Feb 2 at 21:42
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Due to this problem i can't download a single app. Please help me to solve this problem
THE ERROR MESSAGE IS
"Incorrect permission on/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1(need to setuid root)"
authentication
Due to this problem i can't download a single app. Please help me to solve this problem
THE ERROR MESSAGE IS
"Incorrect permission on/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1(need to setuid root)"
authentication
authentication
asked Feb 2 at 18:49
Akhil GeorgeAkhil George
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Did you do something to your system just before this started to happen? If you strred your system with aroot
stick, playing whack-a-mole with the aftereffects isn't worth the effort.
– waltinator
Feb 2 at 21:42
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Did you do something to your system just before this started to happen? If you strred your system with aroot
stick, playing whack-a-mole with the aftereffects isn't worth the effort.
– waltinator
Feb 2 at 21:42
1
1
Did you do something to your system just before this started to happen? If you strred your system with a
root
stick, playing whack-a-mole with the aftereffects isn't worth the effort.– waltinator
Feb 2 at 21:42
Did you do something to your system just before this started to happen? If you strred your system with a
root
stick, playing whack-a-mole with the aftereffects isn't worth the effort.– waltinator
Feb 2 at 21:42
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This is the solution I came up with and tried, and it seemed to work, not sure why the perms changed on this file though :(:
sudo chmod 7755 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
I also saw a version that tried: sudo chmod +s ...
but I didn't like the file permissions, so I opted to mirror the other permissions for the files in /usr/lib/policykit-1/
See: https://chmodcommand.com/chmod-7755/
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This is the solution I came up with and tried, and it seemed to work, not sure why the perms changed on this file though :(:
sudo chmod 7755 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
I also saw a version that tried: sudo chmod +s ...
but I didn't like the file permissions, so I opted to mirror the other permissions for the files in /usr/lib/policykit-1/
See: https://chmodcommand.com/chmod-7755/
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This is the solution I came up with and tried, and it seemed to work, not sure why the perms changed on this file though :(:
sudo chmod 7755 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
I also saw a version that tried: sudo chmod +s ...
but I didn't like the file permissions, so I opted to mirror the other permissions for the files in /usr/lib/policykit-1/
See: https://chmodcommand.com/chmod-7755/
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This is the solution I came up with and tried, and it seemed to work, not sure why the perms changed on this file though :(:
sudo chmod 7755 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
I also saw a version that tried: sudo chmod +s ...
but I didn't like the file permissions, so I opted to mirror the other permissions for the files in /usr/lib/policykit-1/
See: https://chmodcommand.com/chmod-7755/
This is the solution I came up with and tried, and it seemed to work, not sure why the perms changed on this file though :(:
sudo chmod 7755 /usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
I also saw a version that tried: sudo chmod +s ...
but I didn't like the file permissions, so I opted to mirror the other permissions for the files in /usr/lib/policykit-1/
See: https://chmodcommand.com/chmod-7755/
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Did you do something to your system just before this started to happen? If you strred your system with a
root
stick, playing whack-a-mole with the aftereffects isn't worth the effort.– waltinator
Feb 2 at 21:42