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Re: Update notifier not requesting root privileges



On Tue,02.Jun.09, 17:52:15, AG wrote:
>>
> I don't know if this will help debugging this any, but apt-get requires  
> a password but the Update Manager (Synaptic, I believe) from within  
> Xfce4 doesn't.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this?  I wouldn't mind forcing it to request  
> root's password, but there are no apparent options to adjust the  
> security settings from within the application itself.  Might this be an  
> issue to do with membership on specific groups perhaps?
>
> Thanks for any ideas.

I rather think the root password has been stored by the gnome password 
manager, but I wouldn't know where to look, never used it.

Regards,
Andrei
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