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 ....
William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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)."
William Hooper wrote:
William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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 :-) ....
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:05 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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 ....
---- I'd say that rather than processor related, it is simply someone that doesn't read man pages...
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).
Isn't this how hoaxes get started?
Craig
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