Ben Hines wrote:
> At 6:33 PM -0400 6/11/02, Chris Devers wrote:
> 
>>
>>> (btw you don't have to type "sudo fink install" - "fink install" 
>>> works fine)
>>
>>
>> Yeah I know, but if you don't put sudo it pauses then asks for your 
>> password a couple of seconds later. Explicitly using it seems a bit 
>> faster to me. 
> 
> 
> Not if you've used sudo in the past (10-15) minutes.

Well yeah, but that's often not the case...


> In fact apparently you can even "sudo" without a password _across logins_!

Ayup! Mutiple terminals get to take advantage of one authentication 
session. Hence, multiple terminals at the console, multiple logins, 
remote X sessions, remote VNC sessions, or any combination thereof. Fun 
fun fun...

(Oh, by the way, the patch worked -- thanks. :)



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