On several occasions now I have entered the root password for the mga
applet update process quite ineffectively, until I noticed that it
requests the user password and not root.


MCC still requires the root password

I can only wonder why this was changed.

regards


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On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:56:24 -0400, faeychild <[email protected]> wrote:

On several occasions now I have entered the root password for the mga
applet update process quite ineffectively, until I noticed that it
requests the user password and not root.
MCC still requires the root password
I can only wonder why this was changed.

mgaapplet is intended to allow users to install updates. mcc or rpmdrake can be be used to change system settings or install additional software, so it has a more restrictive default.

You can change either setting in draksec (mcc, security, configure authentication
for Mageia tools). I don't remember if the defaults have changed (which would have
been years ago), or if it's always been the way it is now.

I normally change it to allow installing updates without any password.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:12:24 -0400, David W. Hodgins <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:56:24 -0400, faeychild <[email protected]> wrote:

On several occasions now I have entered the root password for the mga
applet update process quite ineffectively, until I noticed that it
requests the user password and not root.
MCC still requires the root password
I can only wonder why this was changed.

mgaapplet is intended to allow users to install updates. mcc or rpmdrake can be
be used to change system settings or install additional software, so it has a more restrictive default.

You can change either setting in draksec (mcc, security, configure authentication
for Mageia tools). I don't remember if the defaults have changed (which would have
been years ago), or if it's always been the way it is now.

I normally change it to allow installing updates without any password.

I checked. The wording of the message was changed to make it clear which password
was being asked for, 6 years ago.

http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/mgaonline/commit/?id=9e5b945debd25b1f063d64dc35d323fcc5e6108f

As far as I can see, no other related changes going back to early in Mandrake.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 27/8/21 9:55 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:

I checked. The wording of the message was changed to make it clear which password
was being asked for, 6 years ago.

Was it that long ago??

Doesn't the time fly or worse, creep up on you !!.

Your explanation makes sense, of course. Updates are not sensitive..

I have reinstalled and am about to let a massive update commence

I hope the net is up to it. I found it to be a bit lagging yesterday

regards



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