not being prompted for sudo password
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kdesudo (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: kdesudo
several kubuntu apps are allowing me to operate as root without prompting for the password.
This has only just started to occur after installing gusty over a failed feisty -> gutsy upgrade.
It does seem a little random, I got used to Dolphin 0.9.2's Open as Root option not prompting until it did once.
Krusaders "Krusader - root-mode" (krusader -caption "%c" %i %m ) used to prompt in Feisty, doesn't always now, perhaps 1 in 3.
I installed Krusader to get away from what I thought was a bug in Dolphin (BTW it would then change the ownership of ~/.kde/
But now system settings and aptitude is doing it too.
With system setting I can alter the network, display properties, even users without being prompted for the password.
aptitude allowed updates and installs all without a prompt.
It could be "caching" it between apps now-a-days, maybe that is its intention, but I would be surprised as it didn't before.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 132456, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.