Greetings

I have to admit I am a little annoyed I can't figure this one out, nor find anything on google or forum search...here is my question:

I am trying to allow a user caching of authentication for using system-config-* (redhat-config-*) application GUIs...I tried just entering:

with this I get no mention of timestamp anything in secure logfiles, nor a creation of a timestamp data file in /var/run/sudo/$USER

If I put:

I get it saying it updated the timestamp file, but if I immediately try again, I get prompted for password...

Has anyone implemented this, and can post their syntax in here ... also, can I just add these flags to config-util, thus allowing it for all system-config-* utils, or does it have to be inside the pam file for each utility? Or does it need to be somewhere else...

I appreciate the help -- and if this is somewhere else I apologize, but I have been googling for weeks here and there, and having found jack

THANKS

brad

AFAIK timestamp is used by default for interactive apps like the redhat-config-* (or equiv named) tools, so copying one PAM stack config should do (maybe there's other deps?). There's sposed to be a /sbin/pam_timestamp_check, but that didn't return nothing but errval 7 for me, spose it ain't working(?). If you OTOH enable the args "debug" and "verbose" you'll have output in /var/log/secure, which worked for me showing the timestamp dir and file used.

thanks for the reply

the feature works as design for a gnome desktop on the same computer, so I haven't had time to debug it much yet for kde, all being said, it isn't that important, and adding the user to the wheel group is just as well, I can never remember the location in the menu, thank god for tab-complete

thanks again