On 2020-06-12 13:12, Nigel Verity wrote:
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Most days I get a notification dialog informing me of pending updates.
Sometimes I install immediately, other times I'll click the "Remind Me
Later" button. I've noticed an inconsistency regarding whether I am
required to enter a password before the update proceeds. There appears
to
be no pattern determined by whether I install immediately or delay it
until later.
Does anybody know if the security policy for updates has changed? In
all
previous Ubuntu incarnations I've used I've always, without exception,
had to provide a password prior to an update proceeding.
Discretionary updates using the command line or Synaptic always require
a
password, so the issue seems to be concerned solely with the updater
service. It looks like a bug to me but I don't want to waste anybody's
time if it is in some way intentional.
I believe the policy is that a password will only be required if an
upgrade
results in the installation of new packages, e.g. an upgrade of the
linux-image-generic package would result in the installation of a
different
linux-image-x.y.z-generic package, whereas upgrading something like vim
would just install a newer version of the same package.
HTH,
JT
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