Auth Synaptic and Discover without password
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-fancy-personal.pkla
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[Synaptic]
Identity=unix-group:sudo
Action=com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
[Discover]
Identity=unix-group:sudo
Action=org.freedesktop.packagekit.*
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
For more, see man pklocalauthority
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