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. -- 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
