root password prompts
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed May 26 21:10:50 UTC 2010
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:59 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
> >> and makes a new entry.
> >
> > IOW it remembers it by logging it. How else would it do it except by
> > recording it in a file?
> >
> > poc
> >
>
> It is an suid program - it doesn't need a password unless the policy
> chooses to ask for one.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. What I meant by "it" in the above is not
the password itself (which of course it doesn't record, that would be
insane) but the fact that the user authenticated at a certain time.
poc
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