sudo and TTY=pts/1

[Chris Hallsworth]

I think so. Once you confirm you want to log in as root, it will 
remember this until the system has restarted. Hope I am right guys, as 
I'm mainly a Windows user, but use Ubuntu inside a virtual machine.


Signed by Chris Hallsworth

On 07/06/2010 11:02, Leander Jedamus wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I don't know if this is wanted behaviour...
> In a terminal I sudo and have to provide my password. So far so good.
> But when I close the terminal window and
> start another (I think with the same pts) and sudo again, I don't have
> to provide a password.
> Is that normal?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Leander Jedamus
>