Define a keyboard shortcut to enter a string in a field (type in password)
 

I'm the one who complained about having to enter a password too often using Mint 17.

Is there a program available for Mint that can type in a password when required with a keyboard shortcut ?

Thanks,

Ralph

Pretty much no. This is one of the downfalls of the Ubuntu OS suites, the persistent need for passwords and even rebooting. Try Mageia/OpenMandriva, or another OS not tied to sudo and has a proper administration password.

No need to change distro - in Ubuntu/Mint, you should be able to get a root shell with

"su" starts the shell, "-" sanitizes environment variables.

I would advise against building a custom solution which keeps your password in memory - you never know what happens under rare circumstances, like the program crashing and the system writing a dump file with the program's memory contents...

You can make the root user accessible in any of the distros that suffer from a sudo fetish in this way:

That will establish a root password. You can then become root by opening a terminal and using su to become root with your new root password.