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torxed
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2 years ago

System auth not unlocking ssh key

So I have two machines, one where unlocking SSH key works perfectly well via system account password (lets say it's 1234 ). But then on one machine I just can't figure out what's blocking 1passwor...
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torxed
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2 years ago

On the broken machine, disable (uncheck) Settings -> Developer -> "Use rich approval prompt".
Then make sure you have a https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit#Authentication_agents and running.

In my case it was a matter of:
console
$ pacman -Sy lxqt-policykit
$ /usr/bin/lxqt-policykit-agent &

After that system auth works again.
Apologies for the noise, I had the agent installed but the agent wasn't running correctly. Sad that there was no errors that I could find indicating that it couldn't spawn an agent auth prompt.