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I am the only person who uses my PC. Is there a way to disable the need to enter my password whenever I add a program, change settings, or sneeze? (my attempt at humour...sorry)

I understand laptop users on the go need it a lot more, but to a person like me, it's more of a pain. Plus 20.04 won't let me use my 4 digit pin.

I'd be happy hearing that plans for future releases might make it a built in option, rather than tweaking and possibly hurting something.

Thanks.

Abhay Patil
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dwd2000
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Even when you are the only person with access to that computer you should not disable this mechanism.

The main goal of asking for a password for "system" tasks (as crip659 stated in a comment) is to protect you from yourself by giving you a short moment to contemplate if you really want to do whatever is at hand.

  • imagine some malicious link on a website
  • a malicious macro in an office document
  • a misplaced click on delete for some important system folder (like /etc)
guntbert
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