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[Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 26 April 2010 18:18:37 Michael Andres wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 13:13:22 Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> > After entering "sudo zypper dup" I am asked for the root password
> > before anything goes. When I use "sudo zypper ps" in order to see
> > eventuell dead commands I have to supply my password again. So far
> > as expected. But when I enter "sudo zypper dup" right after
> > running "sudo zypper ps" I am not required to enter my password. A
> > bug?
>
> A 'sudo' faeture. 'man sudo' says:
>
>       Once a user has been authenticated, a timestamp is updated and
>       the user may then use sudo without a password for a short period
>       of time (5 minutes unless overridden in sudoers).

Thanks. Man pages seem to help sometimes ;)
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