Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
>>
>> I want only users with root privileges to use
>> apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior
>> restored.
>
> Then I don't understand "users". Only root has got root privileges. If
> other users should have the same permissions, than you must have edit
> something and it might explain why a user password is required.
>
> If you only upgraded Sid and this happened, it's a bug.
If a user can su or sudo to root, he/she has root privileges.
It just looks like PolicyKit's changed its admin-user/group rules
although I can't see such a recent change in the policykit-1
changelog.
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