Actually, it only caches the credentials for 5 minutes and forgets
them. This is an aspect of the sudo command, which is called by the GUI
applications. There is a way to change the timeout, but the method for
doing so eludes me at the moment. It might be asiest to just wait the 5
minutes for the credentials to expire.
--James Cooley
linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi!
I recognised under RHEL WS3, that KDE remembers the root password once a
graphical application required root authentication and it was typed in. That
means that a second root authentication is not taking place, and the application
which requires a root password opens without it.
Example:
$ redhat-config-users
-> opening the usermanager for the first time, asks for the root password, OK.
=> opening now the same or any other graphical application that requires root
autentication, don't ask for the root password anymore, they just open.
Any ideas where I can disable this behaviour (seems to be a security hole).
Thanks!
Marcel Fritzenwallner
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Information Technology
Florida Tech
321-674-7999
jcooley@xxxxxxxxxx
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