Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:09 PM, anx_dev ispma...@gmail.com wrote: Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin several machines with a central NIS for users and allowing only the user sitting on the

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 20:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to Mate which I run. gksudo will run it here...but pkexec will not. I don't know

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:09 AM, anx_dev ispma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin several machines with a central NIS for users and allowing only the user

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread anx_dev
Em terça-feira, 22 de outubro de 2013 22h30min02s UTC-2, Ralf Mardorf escreveu: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:09 -0700, anx_dev wrote: Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. Does it work if you use gksudo? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread anx_dev
Em quarta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2013 09h00min02s UTC-2, Tom H escreveu: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:09 PM, anx_dev ispma...@gmail.com wrote: Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread anx_dev
Em terça-feira, 22 de outubro de 2013 23h00min02s UTC-2, Ralf Mardorf escreveu: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 20:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to Mate which I run. gksudo will run it here...but pkexec will not. I

Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread anx_dev
Hi all, Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin several machines with a central NIS for users and allowing only the user sitting on the machine to have sudo on _that_ machine. Should I report a

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:09 -0700, anx_dev wrote: Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. Does it work if you use gksudo? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 22/10/13 08:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:09 -0700, anx_dev wrote: Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. Does it work if you use gksudo? I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to Mate which I run. gksudo will

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 20:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to Mate which I run. gksudo will run it here...but pkexec will not. I don't know pkexec. Does it allow something gksudo doesn't allow? If there should be the need to