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    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Thu Aug 26 23:56:24 2021


    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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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Fri Aug 27 00:12:24 2021
    On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:56:24 -0400, faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> 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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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Fri Aug 27 00:55:21 2021
    On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:12:24 -0400, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:56:24 -0400, faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> 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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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Aug 27 01:57:43 2021
    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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    Mageia release 8 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-8-x86_64-DVD.iso


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