I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!
I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!
These are all valid reasons to request a password 🤔
- Wake computer from Screensaver? Password.
Check your screen saver settings. Dunno which desktop environment you’re using. KDE should allow you to not enter a password for this.
- Install something? Password.
- Updates (biggest one. Updates should in my opinion just work without, because being up to date is important for security reasons)? Password.
Installing stuff runs
sudoin the background hence the password prompt. Updates = installing stuff. Look up “passwordless sudo”. At this point, when do you even want a password to be shown? If you don’t need a password, get rid of it entirely.Anti Commercial AI thingy
At this point, when do you even want a password to be shown? If you don’t need a password, get rid of it entirely.
Do you still do this by just pressing enter when you change your password? (i.e. entering no password as your password)
Yep, using an empty password should work. They keyring will also need an empty password.
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