[GRLUG] Figure this one out...

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Jul 30 13:22:02 EDT 2009


> > 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.

Hmm, are you sure it isn't merely the fact that the pts gets recycled?



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