On Wednesday 26 May 2010 02:27 PM, Tom H wrote: > 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. I believe what the OP is asking is the gui utility that remembers the authentication after a user enters the root password after the prompt by a gui dialogue. As far as I know this facility used to be offered by policykit and the way to set this was to use polkit-gnome-authorization. But that particular utility has been unavailable since Fedora 12. In short you are better off configuring sudo and calling system-config-printer from the terminal like this, $ sudo system-config-printer -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- 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
