On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, MJ Ray wrote:
james wrote:
goes into synaptic you get "enter the administrative password" and below one has the buttons 'Save for this session' and 'save in the keyring'. Save for this session is SET BY DEFAULT... why on earth! ubuntu doesn't have those buttons - it's just enter password.
I can't think why anyone would want to save the password and have root privilege set for a session. Idea of root is when admin is required one does the admin and then exits returning to user status. Debian's got an entry in 'my black book'.
I just tried this on my debian desktop system and the "Remember password" tickbox above the "Save for this session" and "Save in the keyring" is unticked by default, so it doesn't matter that "Save for this session" is highlighted as you'd need to tick the "Remember" first anyway. Maybe it changed since I installed this, though.
Don't give it an entry in your black book - give it an entry in bugs.debian.org (but be aware it'll show your email address) by
I appreciate your reply... i found it was set by default which is why i was 'thrown'. That window doesn't appear in *buntu which i'd used for 6 years. I'm going through a bad stage with linux at present. 'Black book' was just being light hearted - all distros have their place (even if one can't see it). Just that with ubuntu which is what i've used i've found more problems which each release. Emacs 24 is out... it'll be a while being it gets into their repos. In Fedora it's there (just been having a look at Fedora... never liked rpm but i'm thinking about it. For me the last straw in *buntu was a bug that created .goutputstream******** every time one logs in - known bug but does it get fixed - still there in 12.11. The last straw was a development version of Abiword 2.9.2 in 12.04 LTS - what is a development version (known with bugs doing in a stable release). *buntu seems to survive on hype - i used xubuntu before Unity (and grief) stepped in i'd like to add. Just liked xfce it seemed to be minimal and do somethings better like Bulk Rename compared with the bloated kRename which i used before.
james