I'm not sure what or how it happened but I downloaded Opera from their website and then clicked
on the downloaded file in Dolphin. Dolphin asked if I wanted to install the Opera .deb - I
clicked 'Install' and it installed it -- without asking for my password!
I checked it's install location and it was installed into usr/bin/; usr/lib and usr/share (plus
some subdirectories of usr/lib and usr/share).
How did the system allow me to install something without permission?
A couple of days ago I installed another .deb that I downloaded and Dolphin *did* ask for my
password.
Any ideas?
Blessings,
Nigel
Comments
Re: Jaunty - installing .deb without password!
By Jonas Norlander at 04/04/2009 - 13:23Could it be that you had used sudo/kdesudo some time before? sudo and
kdesudo caches the password for 15 min. That can be change with the
timestamp_timeout config options in /etc/sudoers.
/ Jonas
Re: Jaunty - installing .deb without password!
By Clay Weber at 04/04/2009 - 13:39wrote:
their
asked
No, its not that. I get the same thing here. I think it may be the new
policykit/packageit system, where the password dialog has the 'remember
authorization' check box. I checked that at some point and don't get the
password dialog anymore.
Re: Jaunty - installing .deb without password!
By Steven Vollom at 04/04/2009 - 22:06How do you like how Jaunty installs stuff? Not much work required, huh?
Steven