disable password prompts after upgrade

Jim azanorak at gmail.com
Fri Jul 26 13:05:21 MST 2024


I never saw it either.

On 7/26/24 12:46, Michael via PLUG-discuss 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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