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0 pointsderekp713y ago0 comments

So there are two ways I can see to fix this. Either make setting the time always requires a password, or, add a signal that time-sensitive processes can listen to that gets tripped whenever time is altered.

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ScottBurson13y ago

There's a much simpler fix that is local to sudo. Sudo has to make the decision of whether to require a password. Just change the line that says something like:

  if (current_time - last_password_time > INTERVAL) require_password();

  if (last_password_time == 0
      || current_time - last_password_time > INTERVAL) require_password();

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ScottBurson13y ago

There's a much simpler fix that is local to sudo. Sudo has to make the decision of whether to require a password. Just change the line that says something like:

  if (current_time - last_password_time > INTERVAL) require_password();

  if (last_password_time == 0
      || current_time - last_password_time > INTERVAL) require_password();

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