Bugzilla – Bug 101
Timestamps exist across reboots
Last modified: 2003-03-13 22:52:24 MST
Sudo timestamps exist across reboots (my system is Redhat Liniux 8.0). I do not know that this behavior exists on other systems. I understand that sudo recieves no notification that a system has rebooted, but I think that could be an issue, although I know of no way to exploit this problem. I am also submitting this bug to Redhat. Perhaps sudo could clean "stale" timestamps anytime a user attempts to authenticate by testing that the timestamp is more recent than the last system boot?
I don't consider this to be a bug. Sudo puts its timestamps in /var/run or /tmp if there is no /var/run. On most systems, both of these directories are cleaned out on reboot. If RedHat doesn't do that I'd call it a bug in RedHat.