Re: Is automatic reauthentication possible?

FROM : Finlay Dobbie
DATE : Tue Jan 14 08:33:01 2003

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 12:54  am, Chris Reed wrote:

> Yes, you can. But it is a system-wide config option. Take a look at
> the /etc/authorization config file. It has some "documentation" as
> comments at the top of the file.
>
> Alternatively, you need a separate process that you launch the first
> time the user authorizes and stays around until you explicitly quit.
> Then you can send it messages requesting that it run /bin/kill any
> time you need. The button to deauthenticate would cause this process
> to exit.


Or you could fix your code so you do authorization the "correct" way
and authorize against a non-expiring right. AuthSample shows this, as
does ThemeChanger (www.clichesw.com).

  -- Finlay