On 11/23/2011 10:05 AM, gerardh wrote: > Hi all, > I have up dated my system to Ubuntu 11.10 and I notice that the update > manager is not asking for authentication before installing updates. Fedora started doing this too, as of version 15. Well for security fixes. gpk-prefs allows one to disable the auto install of updates. Perhaps ubuntu has that too? cheers, Pádraig