Comment 5 for bug 1581713
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| Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote Re: Ubuntu Software asks for an Ubuntu Single Sign-On account to remove a snap | #5 |
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Technically why this happens is gnome-software asks snapd to remove the snap. Since gnome-software is run as as user (i.e. not as root) it prompts gnome-software for authorization. The only method of getting authorization is to call 'snap login' which prompts for store credentials.
What we actually want here is the equivalent of sudo. i.e. check if the user is an administrator and prompt them for their password. This would require snapd to have a "login-local" type concept that would return authorization without checking Ubuntu One credentials.
I'll ask the Snappy team what their thoughts are on this.