Polkit authentication not usable with password, only fingerprint

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On my Thinkpad P14s G5 with F41 and KDE Plasma 6.2.3, my fingerprints are registered for authentication. This works well, in general.

However, when I am prompted by the GUI to provide sudo authentication (e.g., when installing an RPM package with Discover), I can only use my fingerprint. When I enter the password and submit the dialog, the password field becomes disabled and nothing happens until I press ESC to cancel the process.

The fingerprint reader is on the right side of my laptop’s keyboard, and when the keyboard is closed while I have it connected to my docking station, I cannot easily access it. Besides, opening the laptop messes up my display setup (this might be fixable).

On the other hand, when I use sudo in the terminal emulator, it prompts me to provide my fingerprint, but I can CTRLC out of it and then enter my sudo password. This works without problems.

The question is: Can I do something to use my password as an alternative to the fingerprint in the graphical sudo prompt?

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Not as symbiotic for now first is finger then is password so you need cancel finger to enter password for now it is how this works now maybe later it has better structure to use symbiotic like enter what you want style

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Yes but when I cancel the fingerprint authentication by pressing ESC I cancel the GUI dialog altogether.

It’s different at the terminal where I can cancel fingerprint, then enter the password.

As it currently stands, without physical access to my fingerprint reader, I am unable to perform any actions requiring admin rights from the GUI. Of course I can use the terminal but I think this GUI behavior is not intended, or is it? :wink:

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Edit: In addition, it’s does not help to click on the X in the red circle in the alert box, this just makes the alert box go away.

When I enter my password I am stuck with this:

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And nothing happens until I press ESC and everything is canceled.

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Did you press cancel button? I haven’t tested this now on kinoite KDE variant, but on Gnome it is working

Priority 1 is finger pressing cancel in gui it cancelled finger authentication and enable password

It is too late today for me to actually confirm this is working on kde I will test it tomorrow

There is also 10 second timeout if not authenticated on finger it will fallback to password at least again on Gnome it does

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Yes, this also cancels the entire dialog.

KDE Plasma does not have this time-out, at least not on my machine, I should say.

Oh no worries and I don’t mean to steal your time, I can really just use the terminal :slight_smile: and I should probably file a bug report, although I’m not quite sure where (KDE bug tracker? Fedora bug tracker? which package?).