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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>I did some digging and what you were using was polkit "localauthority", which is no longer used in Ubuntu 24.04.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It looks like you might be able to get this functionality back by installing the `polkit-pkla` package, but you'll probably need to migrate your configuration to a regular policykit configuration before the next Ubuntu LTS release or two.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 4:39 AM, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Michael disables asking passwords for sudo, and now you're 1-upping him by just disabling passwords altogether? yikes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Might I ask why you're doing this and what you're doing where your password is being asked for enough for it to be a problem? Unless I'm trying to sudo something, I'm never asked for my password once I login...<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 7:25 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt-qt" style=""><div>Tonight I upgraded my computer from Kubuntu 22..04 to 24.04. The only <br></div><div>problem I have is the change I made to polkit to disable the constant <br></div><div>nagging for a password. After I rebooted into 24.04, I'm being prompted <br></div><div>for passwords again.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's the contents of <br></div><div>/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/disable-passwords.pkla<br></div><div><br></div><div>[do anything you want]<br></div><div>Identity=unix-group:user<br></div><div>Action=*<br></div><div>ResultActive=yes<br></div><div><br></div><div>During the upgrade it asked me if I wanted to keep this file. I said <br></div><div>yes. How do I get that functionality back?<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you<br></div><div><br></div><div> Jim<br></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>