F22 KDE How To Remove "Software Updates" Widget? (Solved)

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/02/15 05:23, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 06/01/2015 02:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 06/02/15 04:25, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> Not being a KDE user I don't know for sure, but even if it alerts that
>>> updates are available, a normal user can't install them unless they're
>>> members of the "wheel" group or they have the root password, not so?
>>
>> That is what I thought, and what I said initially.  However, 2 days after I said that updates were available and I used a non-wheel user to do the updates and it worked.  Not the best of designs, IMO.
>
> Did it at least ask you for the root password? If it didn't and you
> could do an update/install as a non-wheel user, then that's a HUGE
> security hole and I'd BZ it immediately. But double check...the user
> _may_ have "wheel" as a secondary group, e.g.:
>
>     # grep wheel /etc/group | grep <username>

No prompt for root password.  As I said above, I used an account which I knew not to be in the wheel group.

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