Diana Artemis wrote:
> Robin Bowes wrote:
>   > This is veering wildly off-topic, but what's wrong with sudo? Works
>> perfectly well for me, and I don't even use Ubuntu!
> 
> 
> Isn't one of the advantages of sudo that it is temporary - it logs you 
> back out of root privileges automatically after a period of inactivity 
> (after 15 minutes by default in Debian;  after 5 minutes in Ubuntu)? 
> Some see this as a useful fail-safe.  (And you can change the default 
> timeouts if you wish).

Depends how you use it.

I personally use it without a password to allow elevated privileges to 
certain commands for specific users.

R.

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