Bug 337628 - Allow updates without authentication if in sudoers
Summary: Allow updates without authentication if in sudoers
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: muon
Classification: Applications
Component: libqapt (show other bugs)
Version: 2.2.0
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jonathan Thomas
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Reported: 2014-07-20 12:43 UTC by Pascal d'Hermilly
Modified: 2017-06-02 19:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Pascal d'Hermilly 2014-07-20 12:43:17 UTC 
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.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Harald Sitter 2014-07-21 00:28:38 UTC 
sudo is not invovled. To control who gets to do what in which way you'll want to configure polkit (I think pklocalauthority or pokit-action would be terms to search for on that matter).
Comment 2 Pascal d'Hermilly 2014-07-21 07:10:29 UTC 
So if e.g. Kubuntu configured a different policy it would not ask for password?
Comment 3 Harald Sitter 2014-07-21 10:14:40 UTC 
Yes.

More improtantly though, *you* can create a different access policy.
Comment 4 Pascal d'Hermilly 2014-07-21 11:43:05 UTC 
Great thanks.