On 24 Jul 2023 15:55 -0600, from charlescur...@charlescurley.com (Charles Curley): > A fresh install of Debian 12.1 on a Lenovo Yoga 13. I have firewalld > installed, and firewall-config 1.3.0-1 to manage it. Polkit insists on > authentication, which is fine. It then has extremely short timeouts (or > something), so I have to keep re-authenticating. How do I tell it to > not be so zealous?
It doesn't look like you can in any current version. Some web searching brought me to [1] which appears to indicate that the authentication timeout is currently hardcoded to five minutes for temporary authorization. If there's some specific action you take regularly you might be able to define a rule of your own that overrides the default behavior; see [2] for an example and polkit(8) (search for "polkit.Result") for the possible return values. However, that will probably fully override the default behavior, so you likely can't easily implement for example a longer authentication timeout. [1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/tree/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendinteractiveauthority.c#n3276 [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit#For_specific_actions -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
