It's a major annoyance. The system knows perfectly well who I am. I shouldn't have to type my password repeatedly to do things the system knows I can do. The threat model no longer reflects the real world.
Also, you know you can configure sudo to not ask you for a password, right? So why do you need to use a whole new framework and privilege model to basically save yourself from typing four letters?
The whole concept of my personal user account needing to elevate to root to make "system" changes is a relict of long-gone days of BBSes, shell accounts, and time sharing. These days, we should minimize friction between the user (almost always singular) and operation of his system. Apps, not users, should be sandboxed.
I think this is another one of those paradigm shifts accomplished only after a lot of people retire.
What you are advocating for was a disaster for Windows, btw.
No. Maybe have an argument instead of pointing and shrieking?
> What you are advocating for was a disaster for Windows, btw.
No it wasn't. I think UAC is a waste of time, but the type-your-password-into-sudo camp is advocating something strictly worse than UAC.
I don't need to type my god damned password to install a program on iOS or Android.
1. Install `sudo` via pacman 2. Optionally set the EDITOR env var to use something other than vi for the following command, e.g. `export EDITOR=nvim` (if you do change it and want to retain the default shortcuts like `ctrl+a` to go to the beginning of the line, you'll also probably want to do `set -o emacs` to make sure it doesn't get changed due to the EDITOR being set) 3. Run `sudo visudo` (or `sudo -E visudo` if you want to make sure the `EDITOR` env var is used) to edit the sudoers file and look for the line `%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL`. Uncomment that one, and comment out the one slightly above that's the same but doesn't have `NOPASSWD`. Save and exit the editor. 4. If you're not already a member of the `wheel` group, add yourself with `usermod -aG wheel <your username>`. You might need to log out and back in or reboot to this to take effect; groups are often weird like that.
As an alternative, Arch has `opendoas` in the `extra` repos nowadays, which is a port of the OpenBSD replacement for sudo designed to be easier to configure. There's literally no configuration for it by default, and to enable passwordless, all you need to put in `/etc/opendoas.conf` is `permit nopass :wheel`.
Maybe make sure there's only a single sudoers entry that applies to your user, and that single entry is NOPASSWD.