Package: synaptic Version: 0.81.2 Severity: normal When I run synaptic from the xfce menu, it prompts me for a super user password. The userid it prompts for is not root though it is nbaardev which is a recently created userid. Here is what is in the sudoers file if that makes any difference:
# # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of # directly modifying this file. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # Defaults env_reset Defaults mail_badpass Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" # Host alias specification # User alias specification # Cmnd alias specification # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL nbaardev ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL # See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives: #includedir /etc/sudoers.d Is there a problem in the sudoers file or something with this userid or is it a Synaptic bug? -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1 ii libapt-inst1.5 1.0.9.8.1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.8.1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.12.1 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.36.3-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxapian22 1.2.19-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-9 ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2492-4 ii policykit-1 0.105-8 ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> pn menu <none> pn software-properties-gtk <none> ii tasksel 3.31+deb8u1 -- no debconf information
