On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:48 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > 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. > > Umm, perhaps you mean su. The sudo command does not prompt > for the root password. No, I mean sudo. In the default config it prompts for the user's password. > It doesn't "remember the password". It makes an entry in a log > with the epoch. When next invoked, sudo checks the latest entry, > and if less than a certain amount of time has elapsed, simply > goes on. If more than the time limit has elapsed, then it prompts, > and makes a new entry. IOW it remembers it by logging it. How else would it do it except by recording it in a file? poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
