muon-updater/ PolicyKit: want to know password for updates

Ingolf Steinbach ingolf.steinbach at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 21:54:14 UTC 2012


Hi Martin.

2012/5/6 Martin Bretschneider <mailing-lists-mmvi at bretschneidernet.de>:
> if you get notifified by muon-updater in 12.04 (and at least in 11.10), the
> user has to enter his password in order to install (security) updates.
>
> I guess that the user should *not* be asked for updates. He should only be
> asked if he wants to install or remove software. This is especially usefull
> for unexperienced computer users.

Did you receive any feedback on this? I'd also prefer to allow normal
users updating existing software (without admin privileges) as it was
for instance in 10.04LTS. At least this should be configurable.

Kind regards
Ingolf




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