Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
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> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root
> password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only
> users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I
> want the original behavior restored.
I don't have a Debian install with a DE to verify the following but
I'd check "/etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/" where there's most
likely a file defining the polkit admin users.
(Do you have users on your system who can sudo to root and not su to root?!)
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