root user

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 21:38 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2012/1/1 doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net>:

> The password is ”in effect” for some time (I though it was 15 minutes,
> but that doesn't matter much), but you still have to type ”sudo” for
> every command, it's just that you are only asked for the password the
> first time.

The timeout is settable as an option in the sudoers file.  See the
sudoers manual page.  Something like:

timestamp_timeout   30

sets the timeout to 30 minutes.

You can even turn off the password check, but that is not recommended.

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