On Du, 04 ian 15, 17:02:12, August Karlstrom wrote: > I run Debian Wheezy with a simple window manager (Blackbox). If I remember > correctly, in Ubuntu some applications like Synaptic and Update Manager ask > for sudo password only when/if needed. > > How do I configure the system so I can launch for instance Update Manager as > normal user, check if there are any updates available and then provide the > sudo password only if the system is to be updated? As Far as I understand > the authentication is handled by Polkit.
Not sure about Update Manager, but both apt(-get) and aptitude require root privileges to update their information about packages available in the repositories (which is required to determine if any updates are available). One possible way around it would be to do the update via something like cron-apt, apticron, unattended-upgrades, etc. Those tools also do inform you if updates are available ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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