On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:11:01 -0300 Bruno Schneider <boschnei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently, some service needed to be restarted, because the problem > went away after a reboot. Perhaps policykit? > > Anyway, for future reference, I'm not on the sudo group and I found > nothing interesting on changelogs. Something (I guess pkexec) asks for > the root password (not the user's password) before allowing synaptic > to run and doesn't care whether the user is allowed to sudo (my user > is allowed). > That agrees with my experience. I don't use a sudo group, but I am of course in sudoers. As far as I'm aware, the only other application asking for the root password is gparted, though there may be other system applications that do. -- Joe
