[pacman-dev] [PATCH 10/11] makepkg: do not ask sudo password twice

[Allan McRae]

On 17/06/10 22:44, Andres P wrote:
> Fixes a regression in 05ff276eefc with passwd_timeout=0 in sudoers.
>
> Passwords were being asked twice for *every* operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andres P<aepd87 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> makepkg shouldn't make assumptions about the site's security settings,
> specially something as innocuous as passwd_timeout.
>
> A cleaner way that also involves less forks is to process sudo's $?, if
> possible:
> 	sudo $PACMAN $PACMAN_OPTS "$@" || ret=$?
> 	if [[ $? = 4 ]]; then
> 		error "$(gettext "You are not authorized to use sudo pacman.")"
> 		exit $E_AUTH
> 	fi
> Note that 4 is just an example
>


I do not understand you at all here...  As far as I can tell, "sudo -l" 
never asks for a password.  Also, passwd_timeout=0 sets sudo to only 
ever ask for a password once.  I am completely lost at what you are 
trying to achieve with this!

Allan