the requirement for policykit (and dropping of gksu/gksudo) came with
the switch to gnome upstream, its a hard requirement for the desktop
nowadays.
while the default here might be wrong (and should be reviewed by someone
from the desktop team), this is definitely not a snapd related bug. i
added a gnome-software task and will close the snapd one ...
** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
** Also affects: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Snap installs software without user having sudo access
Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
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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