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List: mandrake-cooker
Subject: Re: [Cooker] gnome integrated su
From: "Frederic Crozat" <fcrozat () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: 2002-09-30 17:50:27
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Le Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:17:20 +0200, Guy.Bormann a écrit :
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Frederic Crozat wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:37:18 +0000, Sascha Noyes wrote:
>>
>> > When clicking on the mcc icon on the top taskbar in the gnome
>> > environment, one is prompted for root password. But when exiting mcc,
>> > and starting it again from the same icon, one is not prompted for a
>> > password, this seems to be a pretty serious fault, no? Ok, i checked:
>> > this does not happen to any other application besides mcc. And it
>> > happens to mcc no matter whether i launch it from the panel or from
>> > the simplified menu.
>>
>> Root authentication is kept for 5 minutes..
> And how is it kept???!!!!!! (Is it encrypted? In a file?)
It is done at the PAM layer.
More info on :
man pam_timestamp
and
man pam_timestamp_check
--
Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft
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