Bug 380 – More granular control over password prompt timeout

Bug 380 - More granular control over password prompt timeout


Summary:	More granular control over password prompt timeout

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.7.2
Hardware:	Macintosh MacOS X

Importance:	low enhancement
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2009-12-07 14:16 MST by Timothy Weiand
Modified:	2009-12-08 16:50 MST (History)
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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.