update-notifier "check for updates" prompts for password

Bug #809065 reported by Micah Gersten
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update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When you right click on update-notifier and select check for updates, it prompts for a password for "Synaptic Package Manager". This behavior was recently allowed in update-manager w/out a password. We should do the same here for consistency.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: update-notifier 0.112ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 11 18:16:35 2011
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-03-06 (127 days ago)

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