Re: root password prompts

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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.
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