Hey folks, I wonder how people handle this. A good number of updates show prompts to the user asking questions beyond their understanding. For example grub or lightdm. In an enterprise these configurations might be managed. Because these conf files are different, I get many more of these questions than a stock Ubuntu install where it's much less of a problem.
My users are non technical and tend to click anything on prompts (including non default options). This can do damage from breaking authentication to just users getting worried and contacting IT (which adds to costs) Fully automated updates done like this<http://askubuntu.com/questions/146921/how-do-i-apt-get-y-dist-upgrade-without-a-grub-config-prompt>won't ask questions - but cause instability if the user powers down during an update. If a user is aware of the update they (hopefully) won't turn the computer off suddenly. Puppet mitigates some pain by ensuring configurations are changed back but users still get prompts that might worry them. Ideally I'd like update manager to never ask questions under any circumstance and always use defaults. Best, David Burke
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