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Author: Jim via PLUG-discuss
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To: PLUG-discuss
CC: Jim
Subject: Re: disable password prompts after upgrade
I just want what worked in 22.04 to work in 24.04.   Thankfully I made a
backup of the system just before I started the upgrade, so I was able to
go back to 22.04.

On 7/26/24 04:39, Ryan Petris wrote:
> Michael disables asking passwords for sudo, and now you're 1-upping
> him by just disabling passwords altogether? yikes.
>
> 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...
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 7:25 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Tonight I upgraded my computer from Kubuntu 22..04 to 24.04.  The only
>> problem I have is the change I made  to polkit to disable the constant
>> nagging for a password.  After I rebooted into 24.04, I'm being prompted
>> for passwords again.
>>
>> Here's the contents of
>> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/disable-passwords.pkla
>>
>> [do anything you want]
>> Identity=unix-group:user
>> Action=*
>> ResultActive=yes
>>
>> During the upgrade it asked me if I wanted to keep this file.  I said
>> yes.  How do I get that functionality back?
>>
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>  Jim
>>
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