Based on the reasoning provided in comments 3 and 4, I am closing this
as Invalid. If you think that this is inappropriate, please reopen and
explain how you would like to see this solved and why.
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
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You received this bug notific
Hiding such menu items is a local policy decision.
There is no way to reliable tell whether any particular user can gain
the necessary privledges required by a given program. As you point
out, synaptic is still useful to non-privledged users to browse
available packages.
Suggest closing.
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Yo
Synaptic in Quantal does work when running without root privileges, you
get a warning on startup that synaptic is running without administrative
privileges, and you can browse the package list, but you can't change
anything. Do you still think hiding synaptic from non-root users is
necessary?
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What version of Ubuntu are you running? On my 9.04 machine running as a
guest account I get a "you do not have permission to use this
application message".
I actually think it would be better (for sysadmins) if the options were
all there, but it poped the choose a user account and password dialog
These applications do not properly indicate that they need root
privileges. Their desktop files need to say
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true
This is particularly obvious for synaptic, but if you see other
applications which should be 'blacklisted' that way, please list them
here. Thank you!
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