Le Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:17:20 +0200, Guy.Bormann a écrit : > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Frederic Crozat wrote: > >> On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:37:18 +0000, Sascha Noyes wrote: >> >> > When clicking on the mcc icon on the top taskbar in the gnome >> > environment, one is prompted for root password. But when exiting mcc, >> > and starting it again from the same icon, one is not prompted for a >> > password, this seems to be a pretty serious fault, no? Ok, i checked: >> > this does not happen to any other application besides mcc. And it >> > happens to mcc no matter whether i launch it from the panel or from >> > the simplified menu. >> >> Root authentication is kept for 5 minutes.. > And how is it kept???!!!!!! (Is it encrypted? In a file?)
It is done at the PAM layer. More info on : man pam_timestamp and man pam_timestamp_check -- Frédéric Crozat MandrakeSoft
