Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:04:30 +0100 From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> To: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sudo & su Message-ID: <20050304000430.23281834.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <e572718c05030314475384d7e3@mail.gmail.com> References: <e572718c05030313394a3bb5f0@mail.gmail.com> <2F1BC4E1DAFE0EE0733135BA@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <e572718c05030314475384d7e3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:47:09 +0000 Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote: > There isn't any NOPASSWD, but if I give the password the first time, > sudo doesn't ask for it anymore in the next 5 min or so... > see : man sudoers the timestamp_timeout section > I think I really misunderstood the purpose of sudo. I thought that it > was used to automatically login as root, give a command, and log back > out to user who invoked the command. more or less, yes > So what's the purpose of asking for the password of the actually > logged in user? with sudo you can allow normal users to do certain things without the need for sharing the root-password here are some examples : http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/man/sudoers.html#examples
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