access to USERS AND GROUPS without privilege
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Nov 16 11:18:14 UTC 2004
shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> t. scott urban wrote:
>
>> This is a feature - gnome implemented something like ssh-agent. After
>> entering root password to configure things, gnome keeps the password for
>> you for a short time so that you can make other system changes.
>>
>> If you have the notification area panel applet running, you should see a
>> set of keys icon show up there after you entered root's password. As
>> long as you see that icon, you have access to the system tools from the
>> menu without the entering the password again.
>>
>> You don't have access to root privileges in general, though, as you
>> found, only applications started via gnome.
>>
>> If you're worried about leaving you terminal unattended, you can click
>> on the keys icon and tell it to forget the password.
>>
>
> afair it is
>
> $ rpm -qf `which pam-panel-icon `
> usermode-gtk-1.74-1
>
> it seems that the key-icon is not displayed if you execude a
> root-application from the gnome-terminal.
> it would be nice if someone could give me a hint how to change/control
> the time for "keeping authorization" for this one because there is no
> visual control.
The posting at http://www.spinics.net/lists/pam/msg03703.html suggests that
this is a non-trivial thing to change.
Paul.
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