On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:27:32 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman
<mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Doesn't a sudo user have to enter a password for every command? If you
>have to occasionally do something root-like, that's not too bad. But if
>you are really trying to do some complicated administrating, it would get
>old in a hurry.
It says in "man sudo"
By default, sudo requires that users authenticate
themselves with a password (NOTE: by default this is the user's pass-
word, not the root password). Once a user has been authenticated, a
timestamp is updated and the user may then use sudo without a password
for a short period of time (5 minutes unless overridden in sudoers).
and from "man sudoers"
timestamp_timeout
Number of minutes that can elapse before sudo will ask for
a passwd again. The default is 5. Set this to 0 to always
prompt for a password. If set to a value less than 0 the
user's timestamp will never expire. This can be used to
allow users to create or delete their own timestamps via
sudo -v and sudo -k respectively.
--
Steve
