check also for a suitable polkit-authentication-agent running

fix #382.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py b/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py
index 58748761..6b74cb6e 100644
--- a/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py
+++ b/src/leap/baseapp/permcheck.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import commands
 import os
 
 from leap.util.fileutil import which
@@ -8,3 +9,9 @@ def is_pkexec_in_system():
     if not pkexec_path:
         return False
     return os.access(pkexec_path, os.X_OK)
+
+
+def is_auth_agent_running():
+    return bool(
+        commands.getoutput(
+            'ps aux | grep polkit-[g]nome-authentication-agent-1'))