Seth,
OK, thanks for the response.
RECALL: you can arrange to LOGIN with/without a password!
User choices is not always done away with in UBUNTU.
There are a lot of places where O/S or WEB or whatnot ask for passwords
or offer advisory messages (warnings), etc., and sometimes they ask:
"Dear User:
SHALL I CONTINUE (warning, demanding password, etc.)
It is the user's choice."
FOR FUTURE DESIGN:
I just thought that rather than removing the POSSIBILITY of password
control on Updates, UBUNTU might offer the user a CHOICE, so that it
would be the USER rather than the O/S designers/implementers who decides
to require/dispense with passwords.
PS:
QUERY: Does the no-passwords-updates policy carry through
even when there are updates for non-standard
repositories? Or only for "trusted" repositories?
Cheers,
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Peter Belmont
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718-596-2648
On 02/16/2013 03:08 AM, Seth Arnold wrote:
> Thanks for the report; however, this is working as designed: We removed
> the password requirement for most package upgrades because we wanted to
> make it easier for our users to apply security updates.
>
> ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security
>
> ** Changed in: notify-osd (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Opinion
>
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Peter Belmont
166 Columbia Hts.
Brooklyn, NY 11201-2105
718-596-2648
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