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Author: Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
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To: PLUG-discuss
CC: Ryan Petris
Subject: Re: disable password prompts after upgrade
You must have missed my second email... I explained how to fix it.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 11:15 AM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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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