Can I make it not ask the password again until I next start the Software? That is, once I entered the password, keep the super user privilege until I close the Software.
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But i’ll suggest to really consider the suggestion from the comment bellow that.
That seems like disabling sudo password altogether by letting any user can install software. But what I wanted is keeping the privilege after I entered the password until I close the Software Store GUI. Is that kind of modification not possible without very complicated maybe system modification? In the terminal, if I type sudo and the password, it never seems to ask the password again for subsequent sudos until I close the terminal.
Hi @kingofmanjar0,
That isn’t per-session, that sudo timeout is a length of time, which can be configured.
Unfortunately, according to this page on StackExchange there doesn’t seem to be this kind of functionality in Polkit (yet):
…there are currently no provisions for changing it without recompiling the appropriate parts of PolicyKit.
Sorry!
So, “5 minutes” is hard-coded and there is no concept of maintaining once-gotten sudo privilege until the process ends? Oh well, if there is no way. But this seems dumb. I had to type the same sudo password like 10 times within one hour or so to repeat the same process (installing an app, testing it for a few minutes, uninstalling it) in Software Store.
There should be some balance between security and convenience. When a rule is too strict to bear, there often are adverse effects, because people tend to find a workaround. In this case, I would have to resort to not requiring password (as the other person suggested) than typing the same password 10 times, but it is probably a lot less secure than what I am willing to do: typing the password once until I close the Software Store.
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