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11.10 update manager no longer asks for password

Asked by Hermann Kerr

Update Manager does not ask for password when appling patches. I got quite use to this and I think it makes sence as this is a root activity.

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#1

Are you using super user ? if you are using super user to make changes it will not ask for password.

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Hermann Kerr (hermann-kerr) said : 		#2

HC!!!!! you mean I have been running under root - that is dangerous - time to reconfigure. I got quite use to using sudo and thought in 11.10 I was doing the same and was configured the same way (I even thought it had asked me for my password at least a few times but them I am an old hacker with old timers) and never thought to check. When the Update program stopped asking me for the password I just took it to be a dangerous bug.