[LUNI] ubuntu issues

[Mark Stuart Burge]

Thanks for that useful advice, I too was wondering why that happened.  
At least you did your homework.
Much appreciated !!



Joe Frost wrote:
>> I installed ubuntu 6.06.  I guess as advertised, from the
>> userid created at install time I could sudo to root.  The
>> first time I did a sudo -i it requested a password, but
>> thereafter it did not.  How is this secure?  won't
>> maleware writers learn that all they have to do is issue
>> a "sudo" and they can do anything it could do if the
>> person was logged on as root? 
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> It has a timeout. It defaults to 15 minutes unless changed in
> the /etc/sudoers.  Use visudo and add something like
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> Defaults	timestamp_timeout=0
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> and you'll get prompted for a password everytime.
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> JOe
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