Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: [suse-amd64] OFF-TOPIC - *very* bad]

William Hooper wrote:

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

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I saw this on the SuSE AMD64 list & decided to pass it along, since it seems like a sneaky problem. Later posts confirm it is *NOT* AMD64-specific, nor SuSE 9.3 specific ....

And no one bothered to read the sudo man page?

"Once a user has been authenticated, a timestamp is updated and the user may then use sudo without a password for a short period of time (5 minutes unless overridden in sudoers)."

Yes, that was noted in subsequent posts. It was also noted that this is why many admins disable it. I think I may have gone off half-cocked :-) ....