cross-platform virus

Yuki Cuss celtic at sairyx.org
Sun Apr 9 11:37:57 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 10:49 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 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.   : (  ...

Not a loophole at all; that's the entire *point* of sudo - that it won't
ask for another password. That usefulness is greatly reduced when you
start saving tokens per-program/command line.

 - Yuki.





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