Hi, I'm sorry for the late reply, I was having exams so I didn't have a lot of time to check my mail.
It was in Ubuntu Breezy that this occured... I must have missed the place in the form to fill in the Ubutnu version... There are two users, one called 'ber', and one is 'julie'. 'julie' is the user that cannot become root (which is fine), but she does belong to the adm group: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id uid=1001(julie) gid=1001(julie) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),104(lpadmin),105(scanner),106(admin),1001(julie) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/torrents$ id uid=1000(ber) gid=1000(ber) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),104(lpadmin),105(scanner),106(admin),1000(ber) The clue is that julie is not able to perform updates, while the update-notification icon is showing. This is what I get after clicking the update-notifier and entering the root password: Failed to run /usr/bin/update-manager as user root: Child terminated with 1 status The same thing happens in Ubutnu Hoary 5.04. Another strange thing (apart from this bug report) is that each user has it's own group. Is there a reason that there's not just a users group? Kind Regards, Bernard On 5/29/06, Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your bugreport. > > There is a check in update-notifier in dapper for this, it will not > start for users not in the admin group. Can you please check (via "id") > if the user is not in the admin group but update-notifier does still > starts? > > I just tried it on a non-admin account it update-notifier did not start > for me. > > Thanks, > Michael > > -- > icon showing for users without the right to perform updates > https://launchpad.net/bugs/47253 > -- icon showing for users without the right to perform updates https://launchpad.net/bugs/47253 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
