Re: root password prompts

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On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:39 -0400, Tom Horsley 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?

AFAIK this is a function of 'sudo'. It asks you the first time and
remembers for a few minutes after. I've never seen this behaviour other
than with sudo.

poc

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