Comment 5 for bug 133639

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) wrote : Re: synaptic is asking root password and not user admin's

You might be right. Indeed in the sudo manual it states:

...sudo requires that users authenticate themselves with a password...
(NOTE: in the default configuration this is the user's password, not the root password)

I'm therefore reopening it and marking it as confirmed.