Jim Henderson wrote:
> Perhaps, but I do agree with Chambers on this one - how many times have 
> we seen:

Sure. That's a little different from "Hey, I'm about to ask you to enter the 
root password now, because I need that to do what you asked, OK?"  It's not 
asking multiple times. It's telling you it got an error which it might be 
able to work around if it asks for the password.

It's the same as saying
% rm xyz
Permission denied
% sudo rm xyz
Password:

Suddenly, you have to ask twice, once by typing sudo, once by entering the 
password. Why wouldn't "rm xyz" just automatically prompt for the password?

Which is not to say it's perfect. But it's better than having something 
randomly pop up a security prompt without telling you what it's for.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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