{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5096","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5096/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5096/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5096/events","html_url":"https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5096","id":135132017,"number":5096,"title":"Symplify admin tasks from simple account users","user":{"login":"joe-13","id":9906056,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9906056?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13","html_url":"https://github.com/joe-13","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/joe-13/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-02-20T23:06:14Z","updated_at":"2016-02-20T23:06:14Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I set up different accounts on my laptop (mint 17.3 cinnamon).\r\nSometimes I help one of my children logged on their account, which is a simple user account.\r\nWhen I want to perform admin task from this account (like launch updates, copy files from my account...), I am prompted with a 'type your admin password', but since I'm not logged as the admin, I may type whatever password it doesn't work.\r\nMy kid pwd doesn't work because they're not admin. My password doesn't work because I'm not logged in as myself or as root...\r\n\r\nWhy not have the 'windows' way and ask in this case which admin account to select and then be able to type the pwd accordingly ?"}}