On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 23:55 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> On 2020-07-03 21:59, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> ow in the world is that not a security hole?
>>
>> Why would it be? You just authenticated yourself. Why is it a problem
>> to let you stay authenticated for a few minutes? What do you think
>> could happen?
>
>
> What? You never foolish ran a root command
> by accident (head up your ...) and the lack of
> root privilages saved your bacon?
On 2020-07-04 07:17, Kevin Becker wrote:
You still need to type "sudo" you just don't need to
enter your password
for sudo commands for a few minutes. It doesn't make all commands run
as root.
Hi kevin,
I don't personally care for the sudo command,
so I "su" instead
$ su root -c "command"
And, yes, I know root is the default, but I know how
to type and the extra 1/2 second it takes me to type
it keeps me cognoscente of what I am doing.
But some of the things I run, even with beesu,
such as the virt-manager, still trigger the Xfce
Pol Kit and I can still sneak root command
through for five seconds.
Now other do not thin=k this is a security hole, but
I am aghast that it even exists.
-T