disable password prompts after upgrade

[Ryan Petris]

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 <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 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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