[PLUG] package update w/o sudo?
Joe Niski
joeniski at easystreet.net
Thu Mar 14 18:36:29 UTC 2013
this came up recently on this very list - it's a change in behavior from
11.10 onward. Interestingly, it's positioned as a security improvement
(i.e. to make users more likely to actually install security updates).
http://askubuntu.com/questions/86773/update-manager-doesnt-ask-for-a-passwo
rd
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Joe Shisei Niski
Portland, Oregon, USA
至誠
On 2013-03-14 11:29 AM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:
>Today I ran the update manager (a GUI). It indicated 44 updates. I
>clicked on install. It proceeded without requesting the admin PW, which
>is
>unusual. The Applying Changes dialog took a long time, and the details
>showed many warnings, the details of which I could not read as they went
>by
>too fast. The process went to completion, and the computer is functioning
>fine, AFAIK. I searched for a log of what went on, but found nothing.
> Shouldn't there be a log of those warning messages somewhere? I am
>running Ubuntu 12.04.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Denis
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