Re: with administrator privileges...
Re: with administrator privileges...
- Subject: Re: with administrator privileges...
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:56:04 -0700
At 11:52 AM -0700 5/18/02, Chris Janton wrote:
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Is the password checking dialog box just a sham?
sudo caches the password. Once you provide it correctly, it will be ignored on future invocations, so your bogus password is ignored.
It fails fine until you succeed, or if you succeed and then wait however long sudo takes to time out. Hmm, let's see what it is.
"man sudo" has this:
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Once a user has been authenticated, a timestamp is updated and the user may then use sudo without a password for a short period of time (five minutes by default).
So, wait 5 minutes and then your bogus password will fail again.
Jon
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