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diff --git a/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c b/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c
index cf3c8ad5a..7dae4d14f 100644
--- a/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c
+++ b/src/shared/spawn-polkit-agent.c
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ int polkit_agent_open(void) {
         if (agent_pid > 0)
                 return 0;
 
+        /* Clients that run as root don't need to activate/query polkit */
+        if (geteuid() == 0)
+                return 0;
+
         /* We check STDIN here, not STDOUT, since this is about input,
          * not output */
         if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO))