Control: tags -1 upstrean
Control: severity -1 minor
On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 02:01:18PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
On bootup of my work laptop, I have to log in on the console, then start the network
(basicallty a “sudo ifup wlan0=some-id” or “sudo ifup eth0”, depending), then step the
clocktime with rdate, then run another command with sudo.
That sounds like a workflow that noone else uses. Setting severity appopriately.
Unfortunately, the stepping of the time-of-day often invalidates the timestamp, and
I have to enter the password again, which is annoying. (It seems to have a tolerance
for values below 60s or so, the laptop generally loses about a minute between boots.)
I find that reasonable. Maybe for security reasons. I'd like to know how
sudo detects that between invocations.
I get why stepping backwards will require the password again (though I set a higher
than normal timestamp_timeout), but forwards should not, at least not by small amounts
(less than six hours or so)
Six hours is well beyond the password timeout.
Debian is surely not going to patch this part of sudo's behavior.
May I ask you to take this upstream yourself, maybe to the upstream
mailing list? This is much more efficient than me forwarding messages.
Greetings
Marc
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