On Monday 28 April 2014 15:44:05 stakanov@freenet.de wrote:

P.S. : I have the following security file settings in my opensuse system: secure. Now that implies that when I do run apper (just to notify me about available fixes) the program asks me for the root password to refresh the repos. But when I start a KDE session, apper will do so regardless, also without root password. Is this desired or a bug? Because to some extend this behaviour seems to me not consistent. Is apper escaping to PAM setting in that particular moment? Anybody who is knowledgeable may brief me on that. It does not appear a problem to me but I do not understand the reason for the difference. Thank you.

Apper will not ask for the root password. Apper itself is nothing more than a frontend for PackageKit. PackageKit is the one that refreshes the repos, installs packages, etc. Apper just shows the information that PackageKit indicates. So what happens is that your session will start apper under your own user. Either through the settings for an automatic refresh or manual refresh, apper will make a Dbus call to start PackageKit. Dbus will start PackageKit (running as root !!) and PackageKit will then refresh the repositories. Regards Raymond -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org