Thank you for your bug report. The auth dialog should prompt you for the
password of an user which is admin, are you sure it's prompting for
credentials for the current user and not from another admin one?
** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Title:
gnome-software installs software without user having sudo access
Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ apt-cache policy gnome-software
gnome-software:
Installed: 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.8
Candidate: 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.12
Version table:
3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.12 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
*** 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.8 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.28.1-0ubuntu4 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64
What I expect to happen:
Software is not installed for a user without sudo access.
What does happen:
I'm logging in with an LDAP user. This user does not have sudo access.
When I select software from gnome-software ("Ubuntu Software"), it
pops up and asks for my users password. I enter this in, and the
software then installs (tested with blender, libreoffice, opencl
driver).
My user does *not* have sudo access on the system.
$ sudo su -
[sudo] password for jason:
jason is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
It appears these *may* be being installed with Snaps ... which still:
How, without having root access, can an unprivileged user install
something onto the system?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-software 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-32.34~18.04.2-generic 5.0.21
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Nov 1 13:53:03 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-01 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
(20190210)
InstalledPlugins:
gnome-software-plugin-flatpak N/A
gnome-software-plugin-limba N/A
gnome-software-plugin-snap 3.28.1-0ubuntu4.18.04.8
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-software
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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