>if I'm installing Ubuntu on my laptop and I, as my regular user, want to install audacity, I shouldn't have to re-enter my password! I may be overgeneralizing

>if I'm installing Ubuntu on my laptop and I, as my regular user, want to install audacity, I shouldn't have to re-enter my password! I may be overgeneralizing, or I may not. I feel like people who hate retyping their passwords (it's most of people) are impatient people apt to take other shortcuts when they can, and therefore can't either be trusted with things like C pointers. Just don't take shortcuts, life's too short for shortcuts. I retype all my passwords all the time, and I don't let my browsers remember them either. It really doesn't bother me, and a side benefit is, I never forget my passwords.