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Re: security policy / root passwords



On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:20:16PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > Is there any policy within Debian about such matters, particularly for
> > packages that are a default part of the distribution?  Is it too late to
> > remove this popup from wheezy?
> 
> I think the best approach would be sudo and requesting the user for
> their own password - and probably be more informative about why the
> password is needed or what is being installed.

By the way, this seems to be the case for my wheezy installation,
however, I am running vanilla Gnome3, not Classic (and have been running
wheezy all along sind late 2012).

So maybe either you are missing some sudo-related package, or the
classic mode is behaving differently, possibly due to less testing (if
the sudo route is indeed the intended one).


Michael


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