Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread Colin Law
On 27 February 2013 14:47, Matt Keen mattrk...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey, Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. The update manager is installing updates without asking for root password? It isn 't really a feature I would like. Any ideas on how to stop it?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread scoundrel50a
On 04/03/2013 09:33, Colin Law wrote: On 27 February 2013 14:47, Matt Keen mattrk...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey, Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. The update manager is installing updates without asking for root password? It isn 't really a feature I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 March 2013 10:18, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/03/2013 09:33, Colin Law wrote: On 27 February 2013 14:47, Matt Keen mattrk...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey, Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found. The update manager is installing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-04 10:35, Colin Law wrote: The terminal commands have not changed as far as I know. No, they haven't. The Ubuntu updater uses PolicyKit. As others have noted, it allows updates to packages without passwords, but not installation of new packages. This is a good design. The CLI

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Globally Jamming

2013-03-04 Thread Laura Czajkowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 10:41, Laura Czajkowski wrote: On 25/02/13 23:19, Tony Scott wrote: Hi Alan Ok - got it http://www.lczajkowski.com/2013/01/28/hackntalk-march-event/ It just looks rather odd there is no name(s) on the event site - there usually is