Jaunty - installing .deb without password!

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 04 April 2009 1:39:39 pm Clay Weber wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2009 1:23:22 pm Jonas Norlander wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>
>
> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure what or how it happened but I downloaded Opera from
>
> their
>
> > > website and then clicked on the downloaded file in Dolphin. Dolphin
>
> asked
>
> > > if I wanted to install the Opera .deb - I clicked 'Install' and it
> > > installed it -- without asking for my password! I checked it's install
> > > location and it was installed into usr/bin/; usr/lib and usr/share
> > > (plus some subdirectories of usr/lib and usr/share).
> > >
> > > How did the system allow me to install something without permission?
> > >
> > > A couple of days ago I installed another .deb that I downloaded and
> > > Dolphin *did* ask for my password.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Blessings,
> > >
> > > Nigel
> >
> > Could it be that you had used sudo/kdesudo some time before? sudo and
> > kdesudo caches the password for 15 min. That can be change with the
> > timestamp_timeout config options in /etc/sudoers.
> >
> > / Jonas
>
> No, its not that. I get the same thing here. I think it may be the new
> policykit/packageit system, where the password dialog has the 'remember
> authorization' check box. I checked that at some point and don't get the
> password dialog anymore.
> --
> Clay Weber
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How do you like how Jaunty installs stuff?  Not much work required, huh?

Steven