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. :) -- Chris Devers || [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage.mac.com/chdevers | boston.com _______________________________________________________________ Multimillion Dollar Computer Inventory Live Webcast Auctions Thru Aug. 2002 - http://www.cowanalexander.com/calendar _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
