Ubuntu 11.10 Update Manager not requiring password

Hi All,

I am not sure what I did. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 x386 on an HP
dv8100cto. Up until this morning, if I ran Update Manager, if I clicked
on the 'Check' button it would ask for my password. After my password
was entered, it would find updates and give me a list. I could then
click on the 'Install Updates' button and it would do so without asking
for a password.

Now as soon as I click on the 'Check' button it immediately looks for
updates without requiring a password. When I click on 'Install Updates',
it automatically begins downloading updates, again without asking for a
password.

The only thing that I changed was I added the below PPA in a terminal

ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

Any suggestions on how to get it to ask for a password again would be
appreciated.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

On 02/02/2012 07:12 AM, C.Joseph Drayton wrote:

Hi All,

I am not sure what I did. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 x386 on an HP
dv8100cto. Up until this morning, if I ran Update Manager, if I clicked
on the 'Check' button it would ask for my password. After my password
was entered, it would find updates and give me a list. I could then
click on the 'Install Updates' button and it would do so without asking
for a password.

Now as soon as I click on the 'Check' button it immediately looks for
updates without requiring a password. When I click on 'Install Updates',
it automatically begins downloading updates, again without asking for a
password.

The only thing that I changed was I added the below PPA in a terminal

ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

Any suggestions on how to get it to ask for a password again would be
appreciated.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

grub-customizer makes use of gksu when it runs, and that will tie
your user password to an entitlement to modify the grub menu.
It doesn't undo that entitlement after it has run.

On 02/02/2012 08:37 AM, Alastair Black wrote:

On 02/02/2012 07:12 AM, C.Joseph Drayton wrote:

Hi All,

I am not sure what I did. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 x386 on an HP
dv8100cto. Up until this morning, if I ran Update Manager, if I clicked
on the 'Check' button it would ask for my password. After my password
was entered, it would find updates and give me a list. I could then
click on the 'Install Updates' button and it would do so without asking
for a password.

Now as soon as I click on the 'Check' button it immediately looks for
updates without requiring a password. When I click on 'Install Updates',
it automatically begins downloading updates, again without asking for a
password.

The only thing that I changed was I added the below PPA in a terminal

ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

Any suggestions on how to get it to ask for a password again would be
appreciated.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

grub-customizer makes use of gksu when it runs, and that will tie
your user password to an entitlement to modify the grub menu.
It doesn't undo that entitlement after it has run.

There was an update to grub-customizer just a few days ago. I never
noticed it doing that before, but I just checked and after exiting
grub-customizer and starting gparted, I was asked to authorize again;
apparently grub-customizer has been fixed in this respect.