Pamac needs to not time out password

[scotty65]

@Molski

Just sudo visudo or however you edit your sudoers. Then near the end add:

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pacman -Syu

Or, instead of messing with the sudoers file, they could add a drop-in to the /etc/sudoers.d/ directory by running this command in a terminal:

echo "$USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pacman -Syu" | sudo tee "/etc/sudoers.d/dont-prompt-$USER-for-sudo-password-for-pacman-updates"

Regarding not needing a password for Pamac, this might be a solution:

How to override polkit password prompt in pamac?

Alright, I have a working solution. I add /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-pamac-override.rules with this contents: polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) { if (action.id == "org.manjaro.pamac.commit" && subject.isInGroup("butla")) { return polkit.Result.YES; } }) When I add the file polkitd reloads the rules, which can be observed when running systemctl status polkit.service.