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 nostr:npub14vdlds6j7m4gqs2n6eugzcuqswthgxvamtx0ldglvep90cu6d09s90mr5w that bug report is a bit vague. The error messages are nothing i can really grok.

My educated guess is that this is about dbus-daemon vs. dbus-broker. Fedora uses the latter, conservative distros otoh still havent made the switch. The two daemons handle user name resolution in the policy differently, and this causes quite weird behaviour and in particular different behaviour between the two broker implementations. Dynamic users by their nature are transient and hence only...