Re: Re: security policy / root passwords
Am 10.06.2013 11:10, schrieb Josselin Mouette:
> What is new is that PackageKit asks for a system update *systematically*
> when it finds the system is not up-to-date. I don’t know why, but it
> seems to have started with the wheezy release, it did not happen during
> the freeze.
When I first got that message I was also concerned, because I thought my
system wasn't set up to update packages automatically. Then I checked
and it turned out it was set up to only do security updates by itself,
which obviously didn't exist before the release. The problem was not
that there was a password prompt, but that it didn't give me any
information whatsoever, just "Enter the password to update packages". If
it would have shown me what packages it wants to update and/or a small
link to more information (where to configure automatic updates), that
experience would have been much nicer.
Cheers,
Tobias
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