Those damn passwords

[laurieh]

Hi everyone, I know this has been raised many times, but there's far too many posts, to search through, so, here I go.
I don't mind the login password... but geez, every time I want to do something, I get prompted for the password again, is there a way to stop this very annoying prompt, without causing Google Chrome to pop up it's own rediculous message, please, no comments regarding security, or go to Windows etc.
Besides this annoying prompt, I love Mint.
Regards
Laurie

[Cosmo.]

every time I want to do something, I get prompted for the password again,

I don't believe it. If you want to start a program, open or save a file, browse the Internet and many things more there should be no password prompt - except your system or your user account has been misconfigured.

The password gets requested if you want to do a system change, e.g. install a program. But I cannot imagine, that you do nothing with your computer than installing things from morning to evening or editing files in /etc. And this since the 9 years, you are registered here.

[Hoser Rob]

every time I want to do something, I get prompted for the password again,

I don't believe it. If you want to start a program, open or save a file, browse the Internet and many things more there should be no password prompt - except your system or your user account has been misconfigured.

The password gets requested if you want to do a system change, e.g. install a program. But I cannot imagine, that you do nothing with your computer than installing things from morning to evening or editing files in /etc. And this since the 9 years, you are registered here.

No kidding. The only time I get a password request after logging in is if I'm installing something or otherwise changing something in root. That's normal.

You may have a permissions problem like running things as root that you shouldn't.

[AZgl1800]

My method of madness with passwords,
is to make it a Single Character....

my laptop is never out of my control, so during a Fresh Install, I just type in my favorite Single character....

I have seen people try to crack it, and enter my birthday, kid's names, etc.... and they always fail.

[LoVache]

^ Take care robots aren't people.

[Cosmo.]

I don't understand, what is so difficult to understand. In password there is the word word included, and if we exclude the special case I then words consist of more than 1 letter. It never was called passletter.

[AZgl1800]

^ Take care robots aren't people.

yup,
that they are not,
but in 25 plus years,
my PCs have never been hacked or filled with vermin.

they are always under my control, and I do NOT inhabit the Dark Web

rarely do go anywhere except for my forums and watching YouTube, plus my email.

[trytip]

you have to do this with every root application or you can do it globally (they say not recommended) and then no passwords for GUI application only in Terminal.
so be specific, do you want to remove passwords for chrome? what other applications? i can help, what do you want?

[Neophyte]

To install a program and such, no, you always have to do it.

If you are prompted just for opening the program, you probably installed with the autologin option checked.

You can get it to stop just by setting a black password in your keyring.

[laurieh]

every time I want to do something, I get prompted for the password again,

I don't believe it. If you want to start a program, open or save a file, browse the Internet and many things more there should be no password prompt - except your system or your user account has been misconfigured.

The password gets requested if you want to do a system change, e.g. install a program. But I cannot imagine, that you do nothing with your computer than installing things from morning to evening or editing files in /etc. And this since the 9 years, you are registered here.

Damn, here's me looking for help, expecting you guys to understand I meant system changes, yet all I get is grief... what goes on. My god.

[trytip]

yet all I get is grief

did you read my post? what would you like?

[Cosmo.]

We cannot invent your complain, we must take it as you wrote it. If there is something wrong in your description it is your task to correct yourself.
(God does not use a computer AFAIK.)

[antikythera]

without causing Google Chrome to pop up it's own rediculous message
Regards
Laurie

There's a GTK bug in chromium at present that causes the keyring prompt. It affects all browsers based on chromium project, so if you login without entering a password you get prompted for the keyring password anyway. There's no way to get around it until the developers fix it

[Neophyte]

without causing Google Chrome to pop up it's own rediculous message
Regards
Laurie

There's a GTK bug in chromium at present that causes the keyring prompt. It affects all browsers based on chromium project, so if you login without entering a password you get prompted for the keyring password anyway. There's no way to get around it until the developers fix it

I fixed it by setting a blank password in the keyring.

[antikythera]

I fixed it by setting a blank password in the keyring.

which is fine if you are the only user of the computer

[Hoser Rob]

My method of madness with passwords,
is to make it a Single Character....

my laptop is never out of my control, so during a Fresh Install, I just type in my favorite Single character....

I have seen people try to crack it, and enter my birthday, kid's names, etc.... and they always fail.

As mentioned above, thatr ain't gonna work online. The most common way to hack Linux online is brute force password cracking, and yours would take microseconds.

[AZgl1800]

My method of madness with passwords,
is to make it a Single Character....

my laptop is never out of my control, so during a Fresh Install, I just type in my favorite Single character....

I have seen people try to crack it, and enter my birthday, kid's names, etc.... and they always fail.

As mentioned above, that ain't gonna work online. The most common way to hack Linux online is brute force password cracking, and yours would take microseconds.

Been using a single character password for decades, and never once, had a problem.

[Cosmo.]

There was the man, who jumped from the roof of a skyscraper. On every window he passed he said to himself: "so far it went well."

[Neophyte]

I fixed it by setting a blank password in the keyring.

which is fine if you are the only user of the computer

I use a password manager rather than the built in keyring, and I never have my browser remember my passwords directly. So setting the keyring password to blank fixed this issue for me while also having no negatives repercussions that I can see.

[trytip]

here's something to get you started.
for chrome or chromium edit your menu entry. (cinnamon) right click menu button > Configure > Menu Tab > Open the menu editor > click Internet > doubleclick your chrome entry: in the command box paste --password-store=basic before %U (be sure to separate with SPACE in between --password-store=basic %U (you can now open Passwords and Keys from menu unlock Login and you can delete any chrome entry

for any other entry for instance synaptic (i can go into detail but this is short) open as ROOT /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ search synaptic you'll find com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic.policy open it and find/search the line <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active> change it to <allow_active>yes</allow_active> and save.