The file /etc/authorization is an XML plist that contains the default
authorization timeout periods - 300 seconds for some actions and 0
seconds (ask each time) for others. set them all to 3600 or so.
+ use visudo to edit the file /etc/sudoers and add/alter the line:
Defaults tty_tickets,timestamp_timeout=3600
then the sudo will only ask for a password once every hour for each
shell window - use sudo -k when you're done to drop the ticket.
(+ take back-ups before modifying those files.)
that's a compromise between hassles of entering passwords for every
action - which is the actual complaint - and using the root account
directly, which is not good practise for everyone / may uncover other
problems.
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 18:08 -0400, Dan Shoop wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:34 PM, liyas m wrote:
> > to enable root user..
> > http://www.spy-hill.com/~myers/help/apple/EnableRoot.html
>
>
> Which is completely wrong since the root account /already is/ enabled
> in OS X Server.
>
> Using root isn't the issue. I, being an old time curmudgeon from the
> pre-sudo days who tends not to do silly things like `rm -R /` (at
> least not w/o knowing how to roll back my occassional stupidity) I
> normally `ssh root@host` to perform tasks... but that's from a shell,
> not the GUI.
>
> And sudo is no panacea, as `sudo rm -R /` is just as bad there as w/o
> having to type the sudo, so sudo really offers no protection at all.
>
> Logging into the GUI as root is going to cause the same sorts of
> problems it does from a machine running some X11 desktop GUI, it's
> going to stomp on things unexpectedly.
>
>
> -dhan
>
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