Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Wed Feb 4 20:58:36 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:29:30PM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 02/04/2009 05:52 AM, Chris G wrote:
> 
> > 
> > With sudo you only enter the password once so, once in the swing,
> > you're quite likely to happily type "sudo <something awful>" without
> > thinking.
> 
> So change the timeout value on sudo.
> 
... and get incredibly frustrated by having to repeatedly re-enter the
password! :-)

-- 
Chris Green




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