sometimes i get ideas and want to try something late at night with no light on the keyboard. for this i need to open synaptic and see if the software is available in repos first without resorting to ppa
late last night someone had issues with
snes9x i open synaptic and search for it it's not there. i close it add the ppa in terminal and update in terminal. but i want to see what's in the ppa before i install it so i open synaptic type password again and look at the new ppa
then maybe i want to open file manager as root and edit some hosts which i always open file manager as root and open the document through that. typing all these passwords in dim light is not an option, i need to turn on overhead lamp so i can see the keyboard
i'm sure the frustration is not mine alone. once i type a password i shouldn't need to do it again 5 minutes later. so at least i found the option to not ask for password.
<allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>yes</allow_active>
very crude very dirty. now i need to do this to all the apps i use often with admin rights.
ps: if we go the route of making a pseudo-gksu why not just take usr/bin/pkexec copy/rename to usr/bin/gksu without having to resort to a local .bin directory or symlink gksu to pkexec ?