Thought I'd heard something about this and was glad to find the background here.
I was reminded while catching both the punt-users-on-shutdown-warning and "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" applet being smart enough to ask for the password for the local superuser while e.g. Synaptic still doesn't. I'll mark myself "affected" since it would be convenient to run Synaptic from a running X session without having to ssh -X localhost as my privileged user*, but it's more a wishlist for 10.04 than a killer bug here. *On that particular machine, to avoid dozens of what's-the-password? calls, I put the 'usual' unprivileged user into a localusers group, gave it a hard random password, and rigged up some pam magic to make a local login through gdm sufficient without a password. This apes Windows' behavior for users without passwords - and if anyone is looking for a project, it'd be nice to codify that as a feature in Ubuntu so I don't have to remember what I did there on every upgrade. ;) -- some apps in System > Administration do not work with sudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
