On 06/18/2016 11:36 AM, Mike Small wrote:
Kent Borg <[email protected]> writes:
passwd_timeout Number of minutes before the sudo password
prompt times out, or 0 for no timeout. The timeout may include a
fractional
component if minute granularity is
insufficient, for example 2.5. The default is 0.
I want 0 to mean timeout immediately, not timeout never! If people want
never let them put 999999 in there and let their heirs deal with the
eventual timeout.
Guess I could try 0.0000001
If the password prompt timed out immediately how would you type in your
password? I think you mean to be discussing the other timeout option,
timestamp_timeout. Zero there gives you always ask for a password
behaviour.
I like very much having 0 to never timeout the password prompt. It's
annoying to come back to a build and find that make worked but make
install quietly failed after sudo timed out waiting for a response.
Especially bad in things like CPAN where it might fly by and move on to
something else without you seeing it.
Yes, indeed, I misunderstood. Let the prompt sit there forever.
Thanks,
-kb
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