Re: root password prompts

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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2010 02:27 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tom Horsley<horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> I have seen claims on this list that the root password is
>>> remembered for a small amount of time so you don't keep
>>> getting asked. That has never worked for me, but I assumed
>>> it was just because I was running a non-standard session
>>> and was missing something.
>>>
>>> Today I was running system-config-printer to install all
>>> the various printers around here at work on a freshly
>>> installed fedora 13 system running as a brand new user
>>> in a standard gnome session.
>>>
>>> I get three or four root password prompts for each
>>> separate printer install.
>>>
>>> Where is this mythical setting to make it
>>> remember the password?
>>
>> I have never seen "su" remember a password but "sudo" does. You can
>> set the time-period for which the password is remembered with
>> "timestamp_timeout" in "/etc/sudoers". The default might vary from
>> distribution to distribution.


> I believe what the OP is asking is the gui utility that remembers the
> authentication after a user enters the root password after the prompt by
> a gui dialogue.

You're right. I was being stupid!


> As far as I know this facility used to be offered by policykit and the
> way to set this was to use polkit-gnome-authorization. But that
> particular utility has been unavailable since Fedora 12.

AFAIK the polkit gui was removed as of F12 and policies are now set up
by creating a pkla file in one of the subdirectories of
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority.
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