On 06/10/2024 16:47, Joe wrote:
My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the root password, and it says so explicitly.
My impression is that polkit dialog appearance depends on desktop environment. In KDE it is more confusing since it contains no hint if user or root password is requested.
The result may depend on group membership, see /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules than adds the "sudo" group to admins.