sudo privileges should die faster

[Eric Dunbar]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:02:10 +0100, josé ángel madrid gómez
<joseangelmadrid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes it's an advantage, but this little advantage is a bit scary
> I'm talking about sudo, which is necessary to use some applications, or
> to run some commands. In both cases, you can type another command, or
> another app with sudo and it doesn't ask for the password. I think that
> this is like that because it has a 'living time'. If the command is
> launched before sudo has died, you get root permissions.
> Isn't it a bit dangerous?

A lot safer than su or a root login which remain active and allow the
user to do whatever without having to enter sudo before.