[Bug 1346234] [NEW] Allow running updates without authentication

Pascal d'Hermilly pascal at tipisoft.dk
Mon Jul 21 11:59:14 UTC 2014


Public bug reported:

In muon-updater when running updates the action scope of the user is
limited to update the packages or don't. For people in sudoers (users
not governed by a sysadmin) the authentication/"type your password" step
could be skipped as they can't really do anything to compromise the
system.

According to Muons developers this is configurable through Polkit. If we changed this default it would running updates on Kubuntu less of a hassle. 
It may also improve security as there are less reasons to constantly type your password - which may be exploited by a scam.

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Allow running updates without authentication

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