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Today, after I entered the password for the service shutdown/start process with systemctl, I wanted to set it to not ask for permission for 5-10 minutes. That's why when I entered the policy settings, I saw that it was already set to auth_admin_keep.

 <action id="org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units"> <description gettext-domain="systemd">Manage system services or other units</description> <message gettext-domain="systemd">Authentication is required to manage system services or other units.</message> <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> </defaults> </action>

To make sure Polkit is working properly, I went into pkexec's policy settings and made the new settings as follows

 <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> </defaults>

and strangely pkexec remembered my permission after I entered my password, but systemctl doesn't remember it.

Why could this be and how can I make systemctl remember my permission?

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Same behavior on Debian 11 / Gnome 3.38. The keep part of auth_admin_keep isn't always working.

I think it's the same with all the org.gnome actions (I tested org.gnome.controlcenter.datetime.policy and org.gnome.controlcenter.user-ccounts.policy).

Note : Suse has auth_admin_keep_session and auth_admin_keep_always, but they don't work in Debian (https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP2/html/SLES-all/cha-security-policykit.html)

I suggest you remove Arch Linux from your post title, because it concerns Debian too, and probably some other distros (Ubuntu ?)

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