On Wednesday 11 August 2010 18:58:02 Stroller wrote: > On 10 Aug 2010, at 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... The major threat by analysis on a workstation is stepping away > > for a > > leak and forgetting to lock the screen. sudo is adequate protection > > against > > this as long as more than 5 minutes have elapsed since the last sudo > > was run - ... > > And I seem to recall the 5 minute grace period can be changed or > removed in it sudo's settings. > > There was a big furore about this in the "Mac community" a couple of > years ago, before someone pointed out that sudo existed and was > established on Linux, too. > > Stroller.
And the clueless nutjobs on Ubuntu had exactly the same furore when Warty came out 6 years ago. And every other distro before that. And every other *nix before that right back to when sudo was released for the first time. Every time it's the same. Rant! Rave! Go ballistic about ..... about .... I dunno .... weird stuff about sudo!!!!!! Not a friggin brain cell amongst the lot of them. I've developed a savage delight in systematically dismantling people's objections to sudo and showing how clueless they usually are. People who do understand sudo and know it doesn't fit their needs never seem to rant about it :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
