sudo privileges should die faster

[Vram]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 22:02 +0100, josé ángel madrid gómez 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?
> 
> ==================
> I keep on learning
> 
> 

Sudo had the advantage of reducing should surfing...

The other day I had to perform a task that required root  permission.
I was on the overhead <so 100 folks could see me>

So my choices were

su

or 

sudo

With su I need to type my password. <BAD>

With sudo I just type sudo.... <no password>

What do you think??

HTH

Vram