Bug 380

Summary:	More granular control over password prompt timeout
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Timothy Weiand <tweiand>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low
Version:	1.7.2
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	MacOS X

Description Timothy Weiand 2009-12-07 14:16:00 MST

Currently the password prompt timeout is configured in minutes. More fine grained control can be attained if this is configured in seconds.

Reported to Apple via radar #7441598.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2009-12-08 10:33:23 MST

What is the use case for such fine grained control over the timeout?  I'm not sure I see how sub-minute password timeout are useful.

Comment 2 Timothy Weiand 2009-12-08 15:02:39 MST

Agree, seconds is too granular.  (Changed title)

Use case: Administrator wants to have the password prompt timeout to be 1.5 minutes.

Comment 3 Todd C. Miller 2009-12-08 16:50:11 MST

Sudo 1.7.3 will support using floating point timeouts such as 1.5 minutes.