Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-04 10:35, Colin Law wrote: > The terminal commands have not changed as far as I know. No, they haven't. The Ubuntu updater uses PolicyKit. As others have noted, it allows updates to packages without passwords, but not installation of new packages. This is a good design. The CLI utilitie

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 March 2013 10:18, scoundrel50a wrote: > On 04/03/2013 09:33, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 27 February 2013 14:47, Matt Keen wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>> >>> Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. >>> The update manager is installing updates without asking for root

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread scoundrel50a
On 04/03/2013 09:33, Colin Law wrote: On 27 February 2013 14:47, Matt Keen wrote: Hey, Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. The update manager is installing updates without asking for root password? It isn 't really a feature I would like. Any ideas on how

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread Colin Law
On 27 February 2013 14:47, Matt Keen wrote: > Hey, > > Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. > The update manager is installing updates without asking for root password? > It isn 't really a feature I would like. Any ideas on how to stop it? It has been like th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Pope
On 27/02/13 14:47, Matt Keen wrote: Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. The update manager is installing updates without asking for root password? It never asked for root password, it asked for your password. However for a few releases now it's been config

[ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-02-27 Thread Matt Keen
Hey, Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. The update manager is installing updates without asking for root password? It isn 't really a feature I would like. Any ideas on how to stop it? Regards Matt Keen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.co