bug or feature?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:43:00 -0500, Elton Woo wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 12:13, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > Restoring sessions is a cool feature I think: In KDE, you can logout and
> > leave a konqueror window open, when you log in again, it will even try
> > to restore the last webpage you have viewed.
> > 
> > But what do you think about thins: As normal user I started
> > redhat-config-network and logged out a little later without exiting it.
> > Direcly logged in (I needed to restart the X server) again and
> > redhat-config-network was restored WITHOUT ASKING FOR A PASSWORD!!!
> > 
> > This is a massive security problem I think!
> I would STRONGLY recommend posting a bug report. This should not
> happen. Logging out should "flush" the root permissions, IMVHO.

It's the pam_timestamp module and is intended behaviour.  It sets a cookie
for a limited time, so you don't need to repeat entering the root password
for subsequent sysconfig tools.

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