<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <div><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">With all the menu stuff going on and admin applications not even showing up in main Ubuntu or gnome menus, I have gotten into the habit of launching things like synaptic directly from terminal with sudo. A gui launch errors out silently for things like a typo in the password, while sudo in terminal will prompt you again. Good passwords have the disadvantage of generating typos.</pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As for upgrades, my experience is that it is best not to let the next alpha after a release get more than a few days ahead before switching repos, doing the job directly in synaptic. This applies of course to my practice of treating Ubuntu as a permanent unstable.</pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:37:10 -0800<br>From: "Len Ovens" <len@ovenwerks.net><br>To: "Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion"<br><ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com><br>Subject: RE: Re: bug and solution<br>Message-ID:<br><0fa2a14383a825495f49fd28754d7d38.squirrel@www.ovenwerks.net><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br><br><br>On Thu, November 24, 2011 10:10 am, Luke Kuhn wrote:<br>> I haven't seen any sudo bugs yet, but on single-user<br>> systems it is common to use the same sudo and root password.<br><br>Sorry for the confusion. sudo is fine and works as expected. The software<br>that does the same thing for gui software called policy kit (pkexec seems<br>to be the bit that puts the dialogue up) is right now set up to look for<br>the group admin for that user... but the install user is not in that<br>group. Anyway, it looks like the way these things are done is changing.<br><br><br>-- <br>Len Ovens<br>www.OvenWerks.net<br><br></pre></div> </div></body> </html>