Password Everytime?

[sisco311]

OK cool. How do I extend that limit (As mine happens about every two minutes).

And no, it's not any trouble adding a passcode now and then, I have NO issue with that. As a matter of fact, thats what I love about linux distro's, the security.

USC uses policykit & NOT sudo/gksu. As far as I know, policykit's timeout is hard-coded and can't be changed, however you can disable the password authentication requirement for installing software.

I'm installing Ubuntu right now (long story...). If you wish I can post instructions in a few minutes.

[NertSkull]

OK cool. How do I extend that limit (As mine happens about every two minutes).

Its been a while. But I believe you can change the password timeout in the sudoers file.

sudo visudo

Then find the password time out, and change it to what you want. I think if you put it as 0 it never will timeout.

You may have to add the line if its not in there. I think its something like

Defaults syslog=auth,passwd_timeout=10

You've heard the security risks already, so I won't comment there.