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gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #59946
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 59946

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 59946] Re: run action as root without prompting for a password

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:42:28AM -0000, aurelien naldi wrote:
> Sorry, I might have not explain well the problem.
> I _know_ about sudo. When my system was dapper, launching one of the ****-admin prompted for my password and only members of the admin group could do it. Now it can be launched by anyone, even non-admin users and without prompting for any password (and my password is _not_ cached).

Apologies for the confusion; as you might expect, we receive a substantial
volume of "bug" reports which look very much like the one you submitted, but
are simply misunderstandings of sudo's caching mechanism.

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 - mdz