[GRLUG] Figure this one out...

Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 13:26:22 EDT 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> > 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?

No.  Let me try forcing a separate set of PTYs.


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