On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:57 -0800, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Also, is there a way to manually override the timeout (force it to > time out on command)? E.g. if I need to quickly change a setting and > then let someone else work on the computer. > > BTW, I'm using KDE - but I suspect that these applets were written for > gnome. In Gnome, at least, an icon appears in the taskbar while you've got temporary root credentials, and you can right-click and keep them longer, or abandon them immediately. It's ages since I've used KDE, have a look if something appears when you authenticate as root to use a configuration GUI tool in KDE. I seem to recall that you could configure something to do with PAM about the timing, but only through hand editing configuration files. But it's been years since I read anything about that. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
