• From: Ontario, Canada
  • Registered: 2009-06-29
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Topic: Remove Admin Password Screen Fade

Is there a way to disable the screen fade which happens when a gui application asks for the users password (i.e. when gksudo is used i believe).
For example, when starting synaptic most of the time.
I find it annoying, and it doesn't fade cleanly on my system, so i'd prefer just not to have it. But my google-fu is weak.

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  • From: California, USA
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
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Re: Remove Admin Password Screen Fade

Try this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= … ostcount=6

Be warned that this makes gksu(do) less secure as it doesn't grab the keyboard and mouse.

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  • From: Ontario, Canada
  • Registered: 2009-06-29
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Re: Remove Admin Password Screen Fade

I'm not sure how that makes it less secure, could you expand?
I'll try it now.

Edit: Statler doesn't come with gconf... i dont really want to install all those dependencies
Edit 2: NVM, it does come with gconf, just not the editor...

Last edited by FiniteStateMachine (2010-08-20 23:01:00)

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  • From: California, USA
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Re: Remove Admin Password Screen Fade

FiniteStateMachine wrote:

I'm not sure how that makes it less secure, could you expand?

I suppose an app could try stealing focus at the right time and end up grabbing your password.

As for gconf-editor, you could just install it and remove it afterwards. Im sure apt-get can/will remove the dependencies.

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  • From: Ontario, Canada
  • Registered: 2009-06-29
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Re: Remove Admin Password Screen Fade

yep, i think im going to remove it now.
And i found a slightly different solution.
Another option under gksu is for it to save the password to keyring, which is normally enabled. This means you dont have to enter it /every/ time.
But another option is 'save-keyring' which is 'session' by default, which means it saves the password to keyring, and any programs which want the password in the next X number of minutes, it won't ask you. By changing that from 'session' to 'default', it will always go to the keyring and not ask you, during that session.

Basically, it now asks me once per login for the sudo password. Which i can live with. It still offers all the protection, unless i'm already at my computer doing things. But really, this is linux, and I use it so I don't have to worry about malicious crud.

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