Ubuntu
software-properties package

Software sources requires 'root' password to enable or disable sources

Bug #894075 reported by Guruprasad on 2011-11-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #893842: Move "admin" group to "sudo". Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-properties (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I open the Software Sources application and try to enable/disable some of the repositories (Source Code in my case), it prompts for the root password instead of the sudo password. Giving the sudo password doesn't work as well.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.82
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-1.3-generic 3.2.0-rc2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-1-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 23 22:30:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20111123)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_IN
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)