On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Bruno Schneider wrote:
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote:
I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own
password, and now works correctly.
It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you.
The desktop icon
On 06/10/2024 16:47, Joe wrote:
My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the
root password, and it says so explicitly.
My impression is that polkit dialog appearance depends on desktop
environment. In KDE it is more confusing since it contains no hint if
user or root p
On 07/10/2024 15:07, Bruno Schneider wrote:
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote:
I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own
password, and now works correctly.
It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you.
I'm using a rec
On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote:
>
> I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own
> password, and now works correctly.
>
It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you.
I'm using a recent install of Debian 13 (testing) and I r
On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 15:50:59 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Run the "id" command with no arguments to see your current group
> > memberships. You'll see that "sudo" is not one of them.
>
> I found that if I then tried "id rprice" I could see "sudo".
Y
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote:
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
The %sudo line in /etc/sudoers has no effect. Is there some other
incantation needed in /etc/sudoers ?
You need to log out and back in, or at least start a new authent
On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 13:34:01 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> I also tried to use sudo to call synaptic and failed:
>
>rprice@maria ~ sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic
>[sudo] password for rprice:
>rprice is not in the sudoers file.
>
> I see in /etc/sudoers
>
># Allow members of group sudo
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Joe wrote:
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST)
Roger Price wrote:
... As with Debian 11, a synaptic
popup asks for the super user password, but after entering root
password I get "Authentification failure". This worked on Debian 11.
One test to try is to open a te
On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 11:24:03AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100
> Joe wrote:
>
> Hello Joe,
>
> >My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the
>
> As does mine.
>
> >root password, and it says so explicitly.
>
> Here, I get a different r
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 11:24:03 +0100
Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100
> Joe wrote:
>
> Hello Joe,
>
> >My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the
> >
>
> As does mine.
>
> >root password, and it says so explicitly.
>
> Here, I get a different
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:24 +0100
Joe wrote:
Hello Joe,
>My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the
As does mine.
>root password, and it says so explicitly.
Here, I get a different result. The requester asks for authentication
but does not specify root password. In
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST)
Roger Price wrote:
> I installed Debian 12 and defined a user. Now I would like to
> install other packages as that user. As with Debian 11, a synaptic
> popup asks for the super user password, but after entering root
> password I get "Authentification f
On Sun, 6 Oct 2024 10:47:05 +0200 (CEST)
Roger Price wrote:
Hello Roger,
>I click on "details" but all I see is "Action:
>com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic".
PolicyKit is installed: you must use the user's password.
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On 6 Oct 2024 10:47 +0200, from ro...@rogerprice.org (Roger Price):
> I installed Debian 12 and defined a user. Now I would like to install other
> packages as that user. As with Debian 11, a synaptic popup asks for the
> super user password, but after entering root password I get
> "Authentifica
I installed Debian 12 and defined a user. Now I would like to install other
packages as that user. As with Debian 11, a synaptic popup asks for the super
user password, but after entering root password I get "Authentification
failure". This worked on Debian 11.
I click on "details" but all
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