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
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