Hi! The "Remember auth" comes from PolicyKit, where "auth_keep" is set for this specific request. The frontend can't do anything about it, but the password will only be remembered for a short time, so a solution is probably to change the current string to something more meaningful. The current one suggests the password is saved, which it clearly is not. Cheers, Matthias
2012/10/21 Johannes Zarl <[email protected]>: > Package: apper > Version: 0.7.2-4 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I recently tried apper as a gui for system-updates, and it mostly does > what it should. However, everytime it requests authorization for gaining > administrative privileges, the Polkit dialog has "Remember > Authorization" enabled by default. > > Why I think the current default is a bad choice: > > If one doesn't want the dialog to remember the credentials, one > currently has to change the selection _every_single_time_ the dialog > comes up. Changing the default to "don't remember password" makes the > user less likely to choose the wrong setting in this case. If the user > forgets to change the setting, the dialog will not come up again, so the > user is then stuck with the "wrong" setting. > > If one really wants to never see this dialog again, one can choose > "Remember Authorization" once and won't be much worse off than now. > Especially, if he/she forgets to select the "remember password" box, > he/she gets a chance to select the correct setting the next time the > dialog is displayed. > > I'm unsure whether I should file a bug against apper or polkit-kde-1 for > this issue (and which package is to blame for the preselection of > "remember password"). Please reassign to polkit if the bug is more > appropriate there. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages apper depends on: > ii apper-data 0.7.2-4 > ii kde-runtime 4:4.8.4-1 > ii libc6 2.13-35 > ii libdebconf-kde0 0.2-2 > ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 > ii libkcmutils4 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkdecore5 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkdeui5 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkemoticons4 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkidletime4 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkio5 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkprintutils4 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkutils4 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libkworkspace4abi1 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libpackagekit-qt2-2 0.7.6-1 > ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libqt4-sql 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libqt4-svg 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libqt4-xml 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libqt4-xmlpatterns 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.2+dfsg-2 > ii libsolid4 4:4.8.4-3 > ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 > ii packagekit 0.7.6-1 > ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2 > ii polkit-kde-1 0.99.0-3 > > Versions of packages apper recommends: > ii app-install-data 2012.06.16.1 > > Versions of packages apper suggests: > pn apper-appsetup <none> > pn debconf-kde-helper <none> > pn software-properties-kde <none> > > -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
