On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:48:38PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > reassign 382895 sudo > retitle 382895 sudo: timeout requires user to unneccesarily enter password > thank > > perhaps this has more to do with sudo than with xfce. for example, > with "apt-get" as an sudo capability, i can run > > $ sudo apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > which is what i expect, but after a period of time (maybe something > like 10 minutes...i haven't timed it), i will be required to enter my > user (not root) password for sudo > > $ sudo apt-get upgrade > password: > > why do i have to do this even though i have already supplied my user > password to login? > > anyway, i think this explains why xfce requires the password on > restart or shutdown. >
This is expected behaviour, see the sudoers man page, especially the
section timestamp_timeout and NOPASSWD.
Cheers,
Neil
(Note to package maint - leaving this bug open)
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