On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have seen claims on this list that the root password is > remembered for a small amount of time so you don't keep > getting asked. That has never worked for me, but I assumed > it was just because I was running a non-standard session > and was missing something. > > Today I was running system-config-printer to install all > the various printers around here at work on a freshly > installed fedora 13 system running as a brand new user > in a standard gnome session. > > I get three or four root password prompts for each > separate printer install. > > Where is this mythical setting to make it > remember the password? I have never seen "su" remember a password but "sudo" does. You can set the time-period for which the password is remembered with "timestamp_timeout" in "/etc/sudoers". The default might vary from distribution to distribution. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
