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Linux Mint: Authentication Required (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I'm hoping somebody can help me out here, refresh my memory. Earlier this year, I was having an issue where whenever I opened a couple apps, they would prompt me for my password to launch. At the time, one was Firefox. It was something to do with the keyring. And I used nano to edit some configuration file for each of the two apps to change a line that fixed the issue. But I have no memory of what I changed, and my browser history is no help. Did I change something to trusted? Did I change some authentication requirement to basic? I honestly have no recollection. But if anybody has any idea what I'm trying to say, I would love some assistance.

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[โ€“] solidgrue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you launch nano by CLI? Your command history could go back far enough that the command may still be in there. A quick history | grep nano might be helpful here.

You might also need to check the command history for the superuser account depending on whether and how you might have used sudo to access any privileged files. If you had a root shell open at the time, commands were likely logged to the history file in /root, so you may need to run sudo -s and open a root shell before running the history | grep nano command. sudo seems not to take shell primitives as an argument, so `sudo history probably won't work.

Good luck!

[โ€“] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh man, i had no idea. Thank you, I'll check that out!