On Tue, 19 May 2009, Jayesh Agrawal wrote: > Hi Saifi, > > One input to your question. What I have observed is if you use sudo for a > command it will ask you for the password.And lets say you dont use sudo for > some time and again you use it, then it prompts for the password again. I > think there must be some timer maintained for the use of sudo. This is just > my observation not an answer to the question. :) > > Thanks, > Jayesh > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all: > > > > Noticed that many users keep typing many times on the terminals > > the following pattern > > > > $ sudo command01 options > > password: > > > > $ sudo command02 options > > $ sudo command03 options > > $ sudo command04 options > > $ sudo command05 options > > > > As some would have noticed, sudo only asks for password for the > > first time, so for command 2, 3, 4 and 5, there was no password > > prompt. > > > > Can somebody please explain how sudo works ? > > > > thanks > > Saifi. > > > > >
Hi Jayesh: Thanks for your reply. Is the timer configurable ? The other thing i wanted to know is the commands we execute. Is there a way to classify the command as 'sudo-able' ? thanks Saifi.
