Remember password in Synaptic

[dougmack]

Have looked in the search window without success.  Synaptic has an option to remember your password.  It almost never works.
I seldom turn off my machine, but almost every time I snap on Synaptic, I have to put in my password again. Oh, yes--happens
on two machines.  I would say maybe 5% of the time, it *does* remember I logged in before.  I suppose that this is not really
a pclos problem, but I don't know who the devs of Synaptic are to file a bug report. 

If I'm doing something wrong, or expecting something that *shouldn't* happen, please advise.

--doug

[Bald Brick]

Have looked in the search window without success.  Synaptic has an option to remember your password.  It almost never works.
I seldom turn off my machine, but almost every time I snap on Synaptic, I have to put in my password again. Oh, yes--happens
on two machines.  I would say maybe 5% of the time, it *does* remember I logged in before.  I suppose that this is not really
a pclos problem, but I don't know who the devs of Synaptic are to file a bug report. 

If I'm doing something wrong, or expecting something that *shouldn't* happen, please advise.

--doug

If you tick "Remember password" Synaptic will remember it -- but only for quite a short time. You can close down Synaptic and restart it within a few minutes without reentering your password. But remembering the password indefinitely would be a security risk.

[rubentje1991]

If you really don't want to type in a root-passwd each time, following instructions would probably work (can't assure it, and I wouldn't do it -- some security issues could be involved  )

When using KDE, and set to remember passwd, you normally see a yellow badge in the notification area for a period of time...

Open PCLinuxOS Control Center (2 tools in a grey circle in your toolbar);
Go to tab "Security"
And select (?) Configure login check for PCLinuxOS applications?
There you can set your preferences, and save them by clicking on "OK"

I hope it works (if you risk the security problems.... - if it's on a standalone pc with no internet access, the vulnerability is much smaller - but still is..)