Just to provide some additional background information. The reason why those authentication popups are triggered is Bug #606092 [1]
As a result of this bug report, the packagekit policy was changed to require admin priviliges to do system updates. gnome-settings-daemon though expects that such updates can be done silently/unattended, i.e. without user interaction. See also the comment in [2] So, what Joss has done is disable the auto-updates in gnome-settings-daemon. Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606092 [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-packagekit/packagekit.git;a=blob;f=policy/org.freedesktop.packagekit.policy.in;h=28ab3b14140b064647f100cf94d3ff5370fb0ebc;hb=HEAD#l122 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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