Hi

How can I remove ALL passwords in Linux Mint.

The PC has no security issues to be worried about.
It's just a Media Centre.

Every time copy files I have to enter a password which means I have to sit here for hours instead of just letting it go.

Cheers
Alex

Just change the permissions of the directory you are writing to? It doesn't have to be root owned.

Is it connected to a network or the internet? Do computers on that network have internet access?

If yes, it has security issues.

Would be nice to know how is it connected and exactly what are you trying to do. Probably you can modify this using an ssh key or some other automatic authentication method. But without details hard to say anything.

It's not that simple.
Please explain exactly where you are getting this and what it says, we will take it from there.

You might want to use a dedicated media centre distribution instead.

how is it that a password causes you to have to sit there for hours? why not go do some other chores during those hours? or just don't logout! or did you create a 1000 character "no security issues" password that takes you 3 hours to type in correctly from the paper it's printed on? or maybe a shorter password? just leave it logged in!

I reformatted my hard drive back to NTFS. Instead of EXT4
Not locked anymore.
No more password prompts anymore.

I still did not get the answer I was looking for, thanks.

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

The X/Y Problem is when someone asks for help with their solution instead of asking for help with the underlying problem. Everyone was trying to determine your problem in order to find an appropriate solution. It sounds like it was a permissions problem as first guessed.

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Welcome, AlexEdwin! Can you at least answer the requests to elaborate this part? It is unusual. Personally, I am wondering if you were talking about copying your movies off an USB stick to your media center.

I was copying files from an NTFS drive to a newly formatted EXT4 drive.

The question was, how do I turn off all passwords.

Every time copying created a new folder Linux asked for a password.

When I copy from NTFS to NTFS drive no passwords were asked for and the drive were not locked.

NTFS filesystem permissions are not compatible with linux and therefore when it is mounted automatically read/write permissions are typically "assigned" to that user.

On the other hand with a native filesystem like ext4 permissions are not automatically assigned and you have to allow permissions. Typically there are only a few directories outside of their home directory where a regular user has write permissions.

I assume you were using sudo or the system was automatically asking for the sudo password. The question was not how to turn off passwords but how do you allow a regular user to write to that drive/ ext4 filesystem. The two basic commands are chown or chmod.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File-system_permissions
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/e...ons-in-windows
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fil...and_attributes

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That shouldn't be happening.
Let's hope we get that troubleshooting info so we can start helping you.