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This tracker remains open for interaction with historical bugs during the transition period. Any new bugs reports will be closed without further action.
FS#65134 - Invoke pacman without any sudo timeout
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Pacman
Opened by mirh (mirh) - Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 00:11 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 05:35 GMT
Opened by mirh (mirh) - Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 00:11 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 05:35 GMT
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DetailsSummary and Info:
I, for one, think it is annoying that scripts can fail simply because you went to the bathroom or something like that. And editing passwd_timeout in the sudoers file seems a bit too much. Could you have sudo execute with "-T 0" parameter? Steps to Reproduce: Do anything that triggers run_pacman (such as using --syncdeps with a package where you are missing something) Wait 5 minutes. See the thing fail. |
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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 05:35 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 05:35 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement

Why not just set a passwd_timeout that applies specifically to the pacman command?