No, but you can kill it's parent shell. You can do 'bash -c "sudo cmd"' and kill bash. On my attempts this killed the "sudo" after a single bad password. Sure, bash is a bit overweight and would slow things down, but you can emulate whatever happens there with less bloat. Or use dash, at the least.
On 9/13/07, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For most cases it's very simple to get around this by attempting a > password, killing the process after 100ms if it doesn't answer and > retrying. > > This does not actually work, since as an user you are not allowed to > kill a suid root process. So you can only fork processes like hell, > which is bound by nproc. > > I still think that this is a sensible security measure. > > -- > Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138654 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O. -- Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
