[no bug?] mintupdate doesn't play well with multiple users

[Smiff2]

mintupdate seems to fail if run on under any account other than the first which ran it, something about temporary file permissions.
after deleting temp files it worked ok under another account.
a small issue but took me a while to figure out (only after running from commandline and watching output).

thanks.

edit: oh i remeber why this does matter - if you want normal users to be able to apply updates and you create their accounts after the first account (which is very likely) and you have several user accounts.
I think you need to store mintupdate's temporary files under /home/user/ or something ?

whilst i'm here can i suggest a feature: allow admins to lock down the preferences of mintupate, so users can only install category 1 or 2 updates, for example, and cannot change this.

[remoulder]

mintupdate seems to fail if run on under any account other than the first which ran it, something about temporary file permissions.

Smiff2, are you saying it doesn't run on login except under the original user a/c, or you can't run it manually? It should be in the startup applications of each user and load with that users credentials, however if you try to open it it should ask for the users password as it needs to update with root permissions. Each user needs to be in the sudoers file in order to have sudo rights.

[Smiff2]

it tries to run on every account, but it silently fails (except the first account which works ok).
if you then try to run it from console, you can see its a permissions issue in /tmp which i assume is why it was failing to appear on login.
i think.. i'm quite new to Mint8 sorry, but there definitely seems to be an issue here.

[remoulder]

Do the other accounts you are trying have automatic login enabled?

In order to help you understand how it works, and answer your other suggestion from the OP, please read this post from clem.

[emorrp1]

Thank you for reporting a bug in Linux Mint. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce your problem, so it's likely that you've changed something as root (using sudo) that has messed up your configuration. If you can reproduce the bug in a fresh install (probably a virtual machine, or a new user account) then please detail the steps necessary, including any extra software you added and all software versions. Please also check out the Linux Mint Forums, where there are many more people available to help out with diagnosing any problems you have. You might also like to check out this article: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html This is a standard response, so it may not be entirely appropriate.

I tried as many different ways I could think of to break it using multiple users (since this would seem to be a critical bug). On normal user accounts the authorisation understandably fails (though doesn't provide much useful feedback). On admin user accounts, the gui is closed on the other admin's account before being opened on the current, no conflict. Please provide a reproducable series of steps to trigger the issue.

[Smiff2]

sorry i'll try to get back to you when i have more time. sorry!

[Smiff2]

very sorry i had to give those netbooks back before i could recreate this properly. maybe on my next mint install i'll try to make notes on what i did. thanks/sorry.