Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-16 Thread Mark Copper
I hope this is germane. Shouldn't this be a bug if the system admin cannot update the package at a time of her choosing? As far as I can see, apt thinks that 'PackageKit' is up to date, so the admin must wait for (but cannot predict when) the popup to occur. If the typical user of the box

Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/06/13 00:37, Jens Roder wrote: Hello, just like to add that today this feature with the popup blocked my gnome within the suspend procedure, which I did not see but got a hot running laptop in the bag. When I opened the laptop again I saw the problem and when clicking on cancel, the

Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le dimanche 09 juin 2013 à 18:45 +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : There have been multiple complaints about the new Gnome popup asking for the root password I opened a bug for discussion about the issue, but it was closed by another DD (not the maintainer) - [1]. Other users have come

Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-10 Thread Jens Roder
Hello, just like to add that today this feature with the popup blocked my gnome within the suspend procedure, which I did not see but got a hot running laptop in the bag. When I opened the laptop again I saw the problem and when clicking on cancel, the laptop finally when to suspend. I

Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi, There have been multiple complaints about the new Gnome popup asking for the root password I opened a bug for discussion about the issue, but it was closed by another DD (not the maintainer) - [1]. Other users have come across the bug too and requested attention for it with the same

Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 06:45:18PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: There have been multiple complaints about the new Gnome popup asking for the root password I am not sure what you are complaining about - that you need to specify the root password to install packages, or that gnome requests

Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 09/06/13 19:20, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 06:45:18PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: There have been multiple complaints about the new Gnome popup asking for the root password I am not sure what you are complaining about - that you need to specify the root password to

Bug#708548: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Daniel Pocock dan...@trendhosting.net writes: My feeling is that the user should be told go and run sudo or su in a terminal window you opened manually I don't think terminal emulation is really a good solution here but your idea does have some merits. Maybe you can make your own policykit