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I just made a clean install of Ubuntu 14.10, since I had a 14.04 that I had upgraded a few times. After the install, the OS asks root permissions for a lot of stuff I was able to do without issues before, such as

  • rebooting or shutting down the system
  • mounting the external hard drive
  • sending failure reports when something breaks

Fortunately I ma a sudoer and it is just a matter of entering the password a few times, but it is starting to be annoying. How can I find out what's wrong?

Andrea
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    Nothing is wrong. That is completely normal. – John Scott Nov 09 '14 at 22:57
  • It is normal to have the password asked to shutdown? Without other users being logged in? It surely did not use to be the case in the previous versions – Andrea Nov 09 '14 at 23:00
  • @FuzzyToothpaste have you ever been asked the admin password when shutting down or rebooting? Mounting that is normal but only if the disk is not owned by user. Reports I can agree on; ok. Andrea: please provide permissions (ls -l of the mountpoint of the disk). – Rinzwind Nov 09 '14 at 23:00
  • Permissions are all 755, and the disk is mounted under /media/andrea (which is my username) – Andrea Nov 09 '14 at 23:01
  • If you want to allow your user to run special command without being prompt for password, try this: Specify password for sudo in script – Lety Nov 09 '14 at 23:02
  • (In any case I did not need special permissions for anything of the above previously) – Andrea Nov 09 '14 at 23:03
  • @Letizia My point is not that I want to be able to do that with sudo - those should be actions allowed to all users – Andrea Nov 09 '14 at 23:03
  • I don't know how this works in 14.10 but yes, you should be able to shut down without a root password. Unfortunately I do not know the modern mechanism by which that works. It was part of policykit/consolekit as described here and here. – thomasrutter Nov 10 '14 at 00:30
  • @neon_overload After reading the links you mention, I think the issue may be that my user is not active, in the sense of policykit. Do you know a way to check for this and possibly make so that my user becomes active? – Andrea Nov 10 '14 at 07:32
  • I don't know, sorry. I'm out of my depth at this point. – thomasrutter Nov 11 '14 at 01:48

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