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Thread: Running Software Update as a privileged user

  1. #1
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    Running Software Update as a privileged user

    Hi,

    Is there a difference between using the Terminal commands apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (or apt-get dist-upgrade) as the root user and running Software Update from the System Tools menu ?

    When I try to run Software Update from the System Tools menu a notification message window shows up saying

    "Software Update Viewer is running as a privileged user
    Package management applications are security sensitive.
    Running graphical applications as a privileged user should be avoided for security reasons."

    As I understood from some Google search results then if such a messages shows up then it should not be ignored, so I press Cancel on the notification message window.

    So is using the Terminal commands apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (or apt-get dist-upgrade) as the root user the same as running Software Update from the System Tools menu (if I would press Continue Anyway instead of Cancel on the notification message window) ?

    Thank you.


    kvadrat

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    when you run graphic updates, additional services is required, so there are more security problems from that services. Then terminal with official repos are more secure

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