On 7/3/20 11:55 PM, 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?
Not that I can think of. I rarely use sudo other than running "sudo -i"
to get a root prompt so it doesn't make much difference to me anyway.