Re: root password prompts

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.

But the OP asked about "root password", not 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?

I'm not interested in argumentation. It does not remember passwords,
period.

Mike
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