Thanks for the info and the link. Strange that I just noticed it. I suspect that it has not been consistent--it seems to me I have entered a PW recently.
Anybody have info on the log of the messages generated? -Denis On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Joe Niski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
