I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

  • @Nibodhika
    5•2 months ago

    I understand sudo needs a password,but all the other stuff I just want off.

    Sudo doesn’t need a password, in fact I have it configured not to on the computers that don’t leave the house. To do this open /etc/sudoers file (or some file inside /etc/sudoers.d/) and add a line like:

    nibodhika ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

    You probably already have a similar one, either for your user or for a certain group (usually wheel), just need to add the NOPASSWD part.

    As for the other parts you can configure the computer to not lock the screen (just turn it off) and for updates it depends on distro/DE but having passwordless sudo allows you to update via the terminal without password (although it should be possible to configure the GUI to work passwordless too)