BG405
5 January 2025 20:45
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From what I’ve been reading (years-old threads, though) it seems the password authentication timeout is hard-coded within Polkit, or at least it was back then.
There is a thread on here which might be relevant:
First of all, I already saw this thread: Pamac: password prompt fails after indefinite amount of time
I understand the basic idea of why it doesn’t run the actual processes as root. I have no complaints there. The real problem is that it will ask your password and then on long updates (especially with build processes) you can’t necessarily sit there watching it the whole time. I’ve had timeouts in the past but also pretty much every time it takes a long time I end up wasting lots of extra t…
I also found this:https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit