I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
The software center was asking me for password when I wanted to install/remove any application. Since last week, it doesn't prompt for password. Also, I have the same problem with update-manager
. However, Synaptic and sudo apt-get
ask for password.
How to fix this?
this is link to the files that you guys need to know
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy
Best Answer
As already said, the problem may be your PolicyKit configuration. I would be interested in the contents of the files in
/etc/polkit-1
directory and the file/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy
. The output can be lengthy, so you may want to compress it and upload it somewhere rather than copy it here...EDIT: After you've uploaded the files I can see that the problem is in your
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/20-xbmclive.pkla
file which seems to have been installed by XBMC and effectively turns off all authentication via polkit (why it has done so and if it is really needed I don't know, I don't use this software).