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Rootsudo under Ubuntu

mehmeh12 · 2009-12-03 02:16:35

Hi Whenever i give my password to allow a root like command like Update Manager-does this mean that for 15 minutes my computer is running as a full root user?

03-12-2009 03:16AM

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mehmeh12

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Hi

Whenever i give my password to allow a root like command like Update Manager-does this mean that for 15 minutes my computer is running as a full root user?

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#2 03-12-2009 10:28AM
ravydavygravy

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It means it won't ask *you* for your password again for sudo commands for the next few minutes. Pretty sure you can change this to require password every time.

Edit the /etc/sudoers file (using visudo) and change the defaults line from
Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn

to
Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,timestamp_timeout=0,insults,!fqdn

Full details here: http://ohioloco.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=870820

Dave

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#3 03-12-2009 04:41PM
bman

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ravydavygravy wrote: »

Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,timestamp_timeout=0,insults,!fqdn

Haha. I hadn't seen the insults options before. That's another good thing about Linux, you can put funny **** like that in to your code without having to fear retribution from the boss / man!!

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