Re: Not authorized to run synaptic
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:11:01 -0300
Bruno Schneider <boschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently, some service needed to be restarted, because the problem
> went away after a reboot. Perhaps policykit?
>
> Anyway, for future reference, I'm not on the sudo group and I found
> nothing interesting on changelogs. Something (I guess pkexec) asks for
> the root password (not the user's password) before allowing synaptic
> to run and doesn't care whether the user is allowed to sudo (my user
> is allowed).
>
That agrees with my experience. I don't use a sudo group, but I am of
course in sudoers. As far as I'm aware, the only other application
asking for the root password is gparted, though there may be other
system applications that do.
--
Joe
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