aptitude expects root password

[Alexander Poslavsky]

When aptitude is called as a regular user, without sudo, before downloading and
installing a new package it will ask for the root password. A basic install does
not have a root password.
When using:

$ sudo aptitude

it works correctly.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Created an attachment (id=167)
fix for this bug

[Jeff Waugh (jdub)]

approved for upload - thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in:
 aptitude (0.2.14.1-2ubuntu2) warty; urgency=low
 .
   * src/ui.cc: use sudo, not su for changing to root mode (Warty bug #8345)
   * src/ui.cc, po/*.po: changed "Become root" help to mention sudo instead of
     su.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

It looks like this patch was dropped during the merge.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 9875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed:
 aptitude (0.2.15.8-1ubuntu2) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * Revive the lost su->sudo changes of version 0.2.14.1-2ubuntu2 and adapted
     them to work with the current version (Warty bug #8345).

[Shaya Potter (spotter)]

seems like the patch was dropped again in regards to the text. It makes it
appear that it wants the root password.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I just checked the current version in hoary and it work well for me
(aptitude-0.2.15.8-1ubuntu3).

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I just checked again, aptitude asks for the user's password using sudo, as it
should.

I close this again (state "FIXED" as it was before reopening it).