Re: What are sudo timestamps used for?
Leroy Tennison <[email protected]>
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Thank you, I appreciate the information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]> To: "Leroy Tennison" <[email protected]> Cc: "sudo-users" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:07:55 AM Subject: Re: [sudo-users] What are sudo timestamps used for? Sudo uses the time stamp files to track when you last ran sudo in order to determine whether it should prompt for a password. By default, if you've run sudo in the past 5 minutes you don't need to enter the password again. Older versions of sudo use one file per login terminal. Sudo 1.8.15 and higher uses a single file per user that contains multiple records. You can safely remove the time stamp files, they will be recreated as needed. - todd ____________________________________________________________ sudo-users mailing list <[email protected]> For list information, options, or to unsubscribe, visit: https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users