Amr, I don't know about your case specifically, but in Christopher's case, it was because he was restoring to two different users' home directories. Basically, anytime you are restoring outside your own home directory, we go to root. We *could* try to be smarter there, but it would be a fair amount of effort for (imho) small gain. But you're right that it would be better if we were that smart.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1674121 Title: "Restore" asks for cryptic authentication to run /bin/sh as superuser Status in Déjà Dup: Fix Committed Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I am trying to restore a full backup to an external hard drive. After 20 minutes or so, a cryptic gui popup arises which says that "some process" wants sudo authentication to run /bin/sh It is surely a bug to generate such a vague request for sudo use. I note it has been this way since 2013 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1079553 which has been unaddressed, so the outcome of denying this request is still a great pain), but I am pointing out that this kind of permission request is itself a bug, if not a security risk because it teaches users to give that kind of permission to an unknown script. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-42.45-generic 4.8.17 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-42-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Mar 19 12:35:43 2017 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-12 (400 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) SourcePackage: deja-dup UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-01-21 (56 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1674121/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
