[Bug 1074657] Re: "Authorization failed" when trying to edit anything

[James]

Just to be clear, you need to run

sudo update-manager

It seems like ubuntu is littered with these bugs of not prompting for
privilege elevation and when a novice user (like me) needs to 'run it
through sudo' it's nice to know what program you need to run (since,
after all, the cli executable is not 'Software Updater').  I'm sure it's
possible to find out what program it is through the menu system of
whatever ubuntu flavor  you're using, but most people learn how to 'sudo
something' long before the inner workings of their gui menuing system.

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Title:
  "Authorization failed" when trying to edit anything

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When I try to disable or remove something in "other software" tab in
  software sources dialog, I get an error:

  "Authorization failed.": "Software sources can't be changed without
  permission.".

  This problem started in Quantal, and is not bug #1058072 since I did
  not cancel any auth prompts.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: software-properties-gtk 0.92.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Nov  3 15:13:39 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-07-04 (852 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-properties
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-28 (35 days ago)

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