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.


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?

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