bug or feature?

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Fr, den 05.12.2003 schrieb nosp um 18:58:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 17:43, Elton Woo wrote:
> > Logging out should "flush" the root permissions, IMVHO.
> 
> I guess the motivation is that if user X successfully becomes root,
> within a specified timeout period user X can become root again.  I'm
> sure that if user X became root, logged out, and user Y logged in, they
> would *not* be able to take advantage of user X's cached privileges. 
> Seems like a good feature to me -- though I'm sure it can be disabled.

I knew that this is a pam issue, but I fully agree with Elton: Root
permissions need to be flushed when logging out.

I think I'll file it in bugzilla.

Christoph