Trisquel keeps asking for my password all the time. How can I disable this function?

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Battery
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Joined: 06/14/2013

When I want to stop PeerGuardian, I have to enter my password.
When I want to change blocklist settings in PeerGuardian, I have to enter my password.
When I want to update PeerGuardian, I have to enter my password.
When I want to install new software or remove software,I have to enter my password.
When I want to mount a partition in TrueCrypt, I have to enter my password.
When I want to use Gparted, I have to enter my password.
When I want to install updates, I have to enter my password.
When I want to use synaptic package manager, I have to enter my password.

I understand that the password requirement helps protect the system from unwanted or dangerous tampering by users who don't know what they are doing, but this is highly annoying.
Can anyone please tell me how to make Trisquel stop acting like this? I already gave my password to the computer when I logged in to the system. Once should be enough.

quantumgravity
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Joined: 04/22/2013

No, once is not enough.
Everytime when potentally harmful things are going to be executed, you have to enter the password, and that's good.
It might be annoying, but it's the only way to garantuee a stable and secure system.

By the way, I think the need of passwords doesn't protect the system from being damaged by the user, since the user knows the password.
It protects the system from a software executed by the normal user which wants to do harm to the system, like viruses etc.

Battery
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Joined: 06/14/2013

Pardon my ignorance. Thanks for your explanation.

Spinoza
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Joined: 07/07/2013

@armworm: can i decrypt files with Cryptkeeper that where encrypted with truecrypt ?