this came up recently on this very list - it's a change in behavior from 11.10 onward. Interestingly, it's positioned as a security improvement (i.e. to make users more likely to actually install security updates).
http://askubuntu.com/questions/86773/update-manager-doesnt-ask-for-a-passwo rd ________________________________________ Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 On 2013-03-14 11:29 AM, "Denis Heidtmann" <[email protected]> wrote: >Today I ran the update manager (a GUI). It indicated 44 updates. I >clicked on install. It proceeded without requesting the admin PW, which >is >unusual. The Applying Changes dialog took a long time, and the details >showed many warnings, the details of which I could not read as they went >by >too fast. The process went to completion, and the computer is functioning >fine, AFAIK. I searched for a log of what went on, but found nothing. > Shouldn't there be a log of those warning messages somewhere? I am >running Ubuntu 12.04. > >Thanks, > >-Denis >_______________________________________________ >PLUG mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
