[PLUG] package update w/o sudo?

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Thu Mar 14 18:56:45 UTC 2013


Thanks for the info and the link.  Strange that I just noticed it.  I
suspect that it has not been consistent--it seems to me I have entered a PW
recently.

Anybody have info on the log of the messages generated?

-Denis


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Joe Niski <joeniski at easystreet.net> wrote:

> 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
> ________________________________________
> Joe Shisei Niski
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> 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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