technical question
Jim Cheetham
jim at egressive.com
Mon May 23 07:44:14 UTC 2005
On May 23, 2005, at 7:24 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> For a number of administration actions it is necessary for me to enter
> a
> password. Once this has been done this entry remains in force for some
> time before I am required to enter the password again. Can someone
> please tell me how long this delay is or, if it is machine dependant,
> how do I find out other than by trial and error? I want to carry out
> some tests and it is important for me to know this timing fairly
> accurately.
>
It's all controlled by sudo - which can be asked to not cache the
supplied password at all, if you like.
man sudo :-)
-jim
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