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Author: Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
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To: Michael, Main PLUG discussion list
CC: Ryan Petris
Subject: Re: disable password prompts after upgrade
Weird; here it is in screenshot form to prove I sent it heh:



On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 12:46 PM, Michael wrote:
> if it was sent to the group it was never received by us.
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 2:24 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss <> wrote:
>> __
>> 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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