A password is needed since you modify your system. If you press on the check button the list of available software will be updated and all repositories will be queried.
If the check is done by a background job, it will be launched by the root user and we can trust the root user fully. So no need to ask for a password in this case. Keeping a private cache for the user would require to this for every user or perhaps every app. -- Sudo password required to show updates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/30583 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
