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subluminal wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:22 pm After moving /etc/sudoers.d/antixers to someplace else, the password prompts are back.

Does anyone know if moving that file will have any detrimental effect?

subluminal wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 7:05 pm :
By konsole, I meant no sudo prompts.
Also removed synaptic.desktop file and edited synaptic-kde.desktop file to issue synaptic-pkexec command.
Both issues are fixed by backing-up and then removing the /etc/sudoers.d/antixers file.
Now everything is back to normal.
But will moving the antixers file cause any trouble in the future?
:

• Run without prompting for password,
• Still require the sudo prefix to the command,
• Still require the user to be a member of the sudo group

Defaults !requiretty
Defaults !tty_tickets

$ man sudoers
	:
    requiretty   If set, sudo will only run when the user is logged into a real tty.
                 When this flag is set, sudo can only be run from a login session
                 and not via other means such as cron(8) or cgi-bin scripts.  
                 This flag is OFF by default.
	:

$ man sudoers
	:
  tty_tickets  If set, users must authenticate on a per-tty basis. With this flag enabled,
               sudo will use a separate record in the time stamp file for each tty.  
               If disabled, a single record is used for all login sessions.
               This flag is ON by default.

sudo --list

subluminal wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:52 am :
So I edited the file and erased this line as you suggested.

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Defaults !tty_tickets

m_frank wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:30 pm To gauge the impact of removing /etc/sudoers.d/antixers you should probably use:

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sudo --list

Both with and without /etc/sudoers.d/antixers, then analyze the differences.

subluminal wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:07 pm After installing KDE and removing XFCE,

• synaptic isn't asking for any password.
• Same for konsole. (KDE's terminal emulator)
• MX package installer still asks for password.

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How do I fix it so that normal behaviour resumes?
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subluminal wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:52 am After putting the antixers file back inside /etc/sudoers.d/ all password prompts stopped again.
So I edited the file and erased this line as you suggested.

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Defaults !tty_tickets

Now everything is as it should be. Password prompts in synaptic, and on each new terminal. Just as I like it.
Thanks for the help.

• You've been running MX at least a little bit over the intervening 5-ish months,
• You recently installed KDE,
• For you, "normal behaviour" is each terminal doing separate password prompt time keeping.

subluminal wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:43 am Yes I was bothered by lack of prompt in XFCE before as well.
It's kind of funny because I see in the internet many people in countless forums asking how to disable prompts.

subluminal wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:43 am My setup is usually 2 distros dual boot. One always arch based (Currently Manajaro KDE) and one always debian based (currently MX). This is the second time I installed MX. The first time I went back to vanilla debian because of 2 reasons. First, I am more familiar with vanilla debian. Second, I am not a big fan of XFCE. Now though, having setup KDE just the way I want in MX, it is running better than even KDE Neon or vanilla Debian KDE. So plan to stick with it.

subluminal wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:43 am I'm currently also trying to make a MX KDE respin but a lot of MX tools are deeply intertwined with XFCE which is causing problems. I don't have enough programming skills to rewrite MX Tools in Qt for KDE removing all XFCE related codes.

subluminal wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:42 pm Could be that synaptic, MX package installer and some other MX tools are launched as root and so doesn't get any theme applied to the GUI.