I can hardly imagine how the fact that you're running in VMWare should change anything WRT authentication. More likely a config file was edited... Or you weren't asked for authentication because you had just provided your password for the same action a few seconds before.
Anyway, let's close this as it's not reproducible. ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- shares-admin installs packages without authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677486 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs