How to disable the password prompts?

Question

I've have Ubuntu 15.04 on my laptop and just about everything I do requires me to enter my password.

What do I have to do so I don't have to keep entering my password?

Well, howdy Jim, pleasure to meetcha! Could you [edit] your question and show us a specific example of what you're trying to do which requires a password? Is this in the command line? In the pretty windows? — terdon, Sep 17 '15 at 22:54
possible duplicate of Can I set my user account to have no password? — muru, Sep 17 '15 at 22:54
Well you can disable entering a password when using sudo, but as far as I know there is no way to get rid of say the Ubuntu Software Center asking you for a password. — TheWanderer, Sep 17 '15 at 22:59

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited May 08 '19 at 14:00

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To remove password prompts for commands/apps using sudo:

sudo adduser (your user name) sudo
sudo visudo

Change:

%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

to

%sudo  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Exit visudo- Ctrl+x, y, Enter

Run:

sudo service sudo restart

To remove password prompts for some graphical applications that use policy kit, not sudo see https://askubuntu.com/a/614537/115816.

Done. Bad idea, but there.

edited May 08 '19 at 14:00

Erez A. Korn

answered Sep 17 '15 at 23:04

Marek Bettman

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Not a full answer. This only gets rid of the password for sudo. – TheWanderer Sep 17 '15 at 23:09
there is already comment to the question how to change policy kit settings... – Marek Bettman Sep 17 '15 at 23:11
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But then you refer to that in your answer. Don't just answer part of it. – TheWanderer Sep 17 '15 at 23:13
Polkit link added. – Marek Bettman Sep 17 '15 at 23:18
I have done this but it still prompts for password :,( – Chang Zhao Aug 24 '21 at 20:55

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