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
On the 10.10 64 bit VM I removed the remnants under /etc/init.d/nfs*. I
then rebooted it and ran shares-admin. This time when I clicked
"Install services" I was prompted for my password.
On a newly installed 10.10 32 bit physical machine with all current
updates I was prompted as expected.
It a
Yeah, the latter result is more what I expected. There's a bug and a fix
for that, but nobody committed it for such a long time... Basically, you
can't use shares-admin since 10.04...
Be sure to remove /etc/init/nfs*, /etc/init.d/nfs*, /etc/init/samba and
/etc/init.d/samba if these files exist.
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Well it gets more interesting - I just tried it on a 10.10 physical
machine which has been in operation for several weeks. It prompted me
for credentials. I will reinstall the OS on the physical machine and
see what happens. \
Regardless of the possible security issue it seems that shares-admin
I have removed the packages and restarted the machine just for good
measure. This time shares-admin does not prompt me to install NFS
and/or SAMBA - even though they are no longer there.
My testing was done newly installed 10.10 in the form of VMWare virtual
machines running on a 10.04 host. I w
I can't believe it. Can you remove these packages and reproduce the
problem? I've just done it here, and it's prompting an authentication
dialog.
Is that a new install of Maverick, or an upgraded system? Are you sure
you never played with system settings regarding authentication? Is
'sudo' asking
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shares-admin installs packages without authentication
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/677486
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