2008/12/8 Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Andreas Kahari wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> According to the manual for sudo, the -v command line switch does the
>> following:
>>
>> "If given the -v (validate) option, sudo will update the user's
>> timestamp, prompting for the user's password if necessary. This
>> extends the sudo timeout for another 5 minutes (or whatever the
>> timeout is set to in sudoers) but does not run a command."
>>
>> On my system (CURRENT/amd64), it is obviously not doing this:
>>
>> $ sudo -K
>> $ sudo -v
>> $ # no output
>>
>> Is this changed behaviour, or is it a bug?
>>
>> The only non-default settings in my sudoers file is "Defaults
>> passwd_timeout = 0", and I haven't used "timestamp_timeout".
>
> If so you should not be able to run sudo other than as root.
Ok, so I have added my own user to the sudoers file, just like the
root user ("ak ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL") and I've turned the insults
off ("Defaults !insults") and allowed for running xfsm-shutdown-helper
without a password ("%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:
/usr/local/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper") which means it's not the
default sudoers file, but I don't touch NOPASSWD in any other way and
I don't modify the timestamp_timeout.
>
> My guess is that you have the following uncommented:
>
> %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: SETENV: ALL
It's still commented out in my file (see my response to Todd).
>
> /Alexander
>
Andreas
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