On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 11:24:03 +0100 Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100 > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > Hello Joe, > > >My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the > > > > As does mine. > > >root password, and it says so explicitly. > > Here, I get a different result. The requester asks for authentication > but does not specify root password. In fact, using the root password > fails (with the exact same details as Roger described), I *must* use > the user password. > > Strange. > > Admittedly, I'm on testing, but even when I was using testing before > Debian 12 (Bookworm) was released, I had the same results. That is, I > *had* to enter the user password. > I have the same on bookworm and sid: "Authentication as the super-user is required to perform this action." And then "Password for root:" to the left of the text box. Same box for GParted. -- Joe
