cross-platform virus

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:36:54 +0200
Hein-Pieter van Braam <hp at syntomax.com> wrote:

> Try opening synaptic twice in a row, the login environment that gnome is
> in still holds the sudo ticket, and this it can restart an app without
> asking for the password again. I am guessing that is the concern 

Indeed, you are right - perhaps the sudo "ticket" in this case should
apply only for the app concerned. Not sure if that is possible, but this
does look like a loophole.... Any app requiring sudo seems to open happily
without a password  if started after, say, synaptic during the time out
period.   : (  ...

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