root password prompts

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Thu May 27 07:34:44 UTC 2010


On 05/27/2010 12:57 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
> All programs which prompt for, and receive, passwords in clear
> text form go to extra lengths to make sure that they do NOT
> "remember" passwords in any form
>   

Mike, 

Refer to the notes on password caching at

http://www.wlug.org.nz/SudoHowto

The default is 5 minutes of caching.

Rahul


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