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 -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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