Dear listmembers, a big please: could you try sudo -s <ROOTPASSWD> ROOTSHELL Ctrl-d (back to original shell) sudo -s ROOTSHELL !!!! No question for password. This should never happen. !!!! Ctrl-d (back to original shell) I perceive this as a serious bug. I see this here on SuSE 9.3 (both amd64 and i586) and have no other platform to test - any feedback is highly appreciated! The system asks again for the password after a certain amount of time (10min to 30min). I haven't debugged this with too much depth. Thanks in advance, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ________________________________________________ HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza Manager Hardware Systems System Development Industriegebiet Ittersbach Becker-Göring Str. 16 D-76307 Karlsbad / Germany Phone: +49 (0)7248 71-1577 Fax: +49 (0)7248 71-1216 eMail: DJurzitza@harmanbecker.com Internet: http://www.becker.de ******************************************* Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und loeschen Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the contents in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. *******************************************