user with root priviledge

[Steven Stern]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:27:32 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman
<mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:

>Doesn't a sudo user have to enter a password for every command?  If you
>have to occasionally do something root-like, that's not too bad.  But if
>you are really trying to do some complicated administrating, it would get
>old in a hurry.

It says in "man sudo" 

        By default, sudo requires that users authenticate
       themselves with a password (NOTE: by default this is the user's pass-
       word, not the root password).  Once a user has been authenticated, a
       timestamp is updated and the user may then use sudo without a password
       for a short period of time (5 minutes unless overridden in sudoers).

and from "man sudoers"

 timestamp_timeout
                   Number of minutes that can elapse before sudo will ask for
                   a passwd again.  The default is 5.  Set this to 0 to always
                   prompt for a password.  If set to a value less than 0 the
                   user's timestamp will never expire.  This can be used to
                   allow users to create or delete their own timestamps via
                   sudo -v and sudo -k respectively.

--
   Steve