I'd like to know how I can disable the authentication prompts when opening apps such as Synaptic, mounting disks and so.
I got my user as passwordless set in sudoers, but seems the change to systemd changed something and now I keep getting prompted. Is there any way to set it like sudo in /etc/sudoers so my user can open such apps unprompted?
I am aware of the security risk, but this computer is not connected to the internet and no one else has access to it, I am aware of the safety risk, but I want to do this anyway, for convenience.
Best Answer
As I understand it, these prompts use Polkit, not
sudo
, for authorization. Therefore, settingNOPASSWD
insudoers
won't make any difference to it. To make Polkit skip password prompts, create a.pkla
file in/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/
(say/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/99-nopassword.pkla
) containing:See the
pklocalauthority
manpage for more information.