On 2010-03-09 21:46, Bret Busby wrote:
In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I
encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I
have encountered the message.
"Granted permissions without asking for password
The '/usr/sbin/synaptic' program was started
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:46:31 -0500 (EST), Bret Busby wrote:
>
> In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I
> encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I
> have encountered the message.
>
> "Granted permissions without asking for password
>
> The '/u
>> The '/usr/sbin/synaptic' program was started with the privileges of the
>> root user without the need to ask for a password, due to your system's
>> authentication mechanism setup.
>> It is possible that you are being allowed to run specific programs as user
>> root without the need for a passw
Ron Johnson:
>>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Completely unrelated to the OP, but the best extension to Hanlon's Razor
is given by the previous Friday's Dilbert:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-05/
:)
J.
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On 2010-03-09 21:46, Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I
encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I
have encountered the message.
"Granted permissions without asking for password
I think this is specific to this
Hello.
In running sybaptic, to check for available system updates, I
encountered the following message, and it is not the first time that I
have encountered the message.
"Granted permissions without asking for password
The '/usr/sbin/synaptic' program was started with the privileges of the
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