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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to maintain a personal password file 'safely'? Post 302940947 by rbatte1 on Friday 10th of April 2015 08:10:40 AM
Old 04-10-2015
There is a choice of policy when setting up sudo rules. If your company has chosen to enforce passwords, (perhaps with an expiry time) then that is why you have the prompt coming up.

You would need to negotiate to get the policy changed, however the counter argument will be that if someone gets access to your session, then they can run privileged commands without verification.



Robin
 

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nwfstime

NWFSTIME(1)							     nwfstime							       NWFSTIME(1)

NAME

       nwfstime - Display / Set a NetWare server's date and time

SYNOPSIS

       nwfstime [ -h ] [ -S server ] [ -U user name ] [ -P password | -n ] [ -C ] [ -s ]

DESCRIPTION

       nwfstime displays a NetWare server's date and time. You can also set a NetWare server's date and time from the local time.

OPTIONS

       -h
	  With -h nwfstime prints a little help text.

       -S server
	  is the name of the server you want to use.

       -U user
	  user is the user name to use for login. To set the server's time, you need supervisor privileges.

       -P password
	  password  is	the password to use for login. If neither -n nor -P are given, and the user has no open connection to the server, nwfstime
	  prompts for a password.

       -n
	  -n should be given if no password is required for the login. As you need supervisor privileges for  setting  the  date  and  time,  this
	  option is probably not used very often.

       -C
	  By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off
	  this conversion by -C.

       -s
	  With -s, nwfstime sets the file server's date and time according to the local date and time.

nwfstime							    12/10/1996							       NWFSTIME(1)
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