On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:02:41AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > I don't know whether this is or would be considered as a bug, > or whether it is generally known, but sudo, when successfully > invoked with a password in one shell, becomes active in all > shells of that user for the timed duration.
this is normal. see timestamp_timeout in sudoers(5) if you want it to always ask for validation. steven Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
