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Install updates from Discover without password ? (jlai.lu)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is that possible ?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

Without telling your distro this question is not helpful.

Discover uses packagekit, an abstraction layer that can do things like install, update, remove on many different distros.

So this might be distro-independent, but maybe not.

Try to enter in the terminal pkcon upgrade and if a GUI password prompt pops up, click on "expand" and see the action that is used like org.somenama.packagekit_update

This GUI prompt might also already be the one you described

https://github.com/boredsquirrel/Linux/tree/main/polkit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Sorry I thought that Discover was only used on KDE neon, which thefore is the distro, and the CLI equivalent is indeed the one you mentioned.

So what's the solution for this distro ?

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

I used Neon for a while. Again, can you please give the needed information. If the password dialog shows, at the left click on "expand"/"show more" and you see the exact action that is executed.

Then have a look at the rules in my linked repo, and replace the action in "libvirt" with that, and the group with "wheel"

(Use groups and send me the output, no idea if the sudo users are in the sudo group on Ubuntu)

Then send that rule, embed it in

``` Rule ```

To format correctly. I look at it and if it is correct, we go on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@boredsquirrel
You need to create a polkit rule that allows authentication without password. I will see if I can send an example your way sometime this comming week.
@KaKi87

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have examples in the repo I linked

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
  if action.id == "org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-update" {
    if subject.isInGroup("wheel") {
      return polkit.Result.YES;
    }
  }
});

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't have a rules.d directory at /etc/polkit-1/ though, I only have localauthority and localauthority.conf.d.

Should I create the directory then create the file ?

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Please ask KDE Neon devs.

Discuss.kde.org

Or file a bug on bugs.kde.org

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes create the directory. This is a standard directory but KDE Neon may not use it. Also you need to place that policy there and reload the polkit daemon (no idea how to do that, just reboot lol).

And as I said, if the admin password window shows, use the "show details" button at the left to get the ID of the polkit action.

KDE is a very empowering Desktop!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it's not working 😅

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Rule looks fine. Please contact KDE devs on discuss.kde.org

This will be Neon specific, on Fedora this is the directory used for polkit rules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@KaKi87
Yes.
@boredsquirrel @kde

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