[GRLUG] Figure this one out...

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Jeff DeFouw<jeffd at i2k.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:51:45AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Ben Rousch<brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> shortcircuit at cheshire/tmp
>> >> 22:42:05 $ ssh hostname sudo /etc/init.d/mediatomb restart
>> >> ?* Stopping MediaTomb ...
>> >> [ ok ]
>> >> ?* Starting MediaTomb ...
>> >> [ ok ]
>> >> shortcircuit at cheshire/tmp
>> >> 22:42:26 $
>> >>
>> >> What's wrong with this picture?
>>
>> Sorry...Just woke up.
>>
>> I am indeed using public/private key auth between cheshire and the
>> host running mediatomb.  that's why there was no password there.
>>
>> I still don't know why sudo didn't ask for a password, though.  That's
>> what startled me.
>
> Sudo didn't already authenticate you in the last 15 minutes?

That was probably it.  I'd thought that sudo uses a separate auth
cache and timeout for each login session, as that was the kind of
behavior I'd thought I'd seen before.  However, I just tested, and the
auth cache/timeout appears to apply to all sessions for the same user.

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