Re: sudoers

[Ikmal <ikmal@nasionet.net>]

I use vi

On Friday 14 June 2002 06:40, Scott Francis wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:42:00AM +0000, ikmal.ahmad@nasioncom.com.my said:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have add this line on my sudoers file but, no effect. I mean after 3
> > minutes, uid still same.  Any idea?
> >
> > Defaults	passwd_timeout=3,timestamp_timeout=3
>
> please wrap your posts.
>
> How did you add this line to /etc/sudoers? Did you vi the file directly, or
> did you use visudo? I had some confusion myself over /etc/sudoers syntax
> until I forced myself to spend about an hour reading sudoers(5) through
> about 2 or 3 times. It's a long page, but by the time you've read it top to
> bottom a few times, you should have an idea of what's going on.

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