Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

[Stroller]

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.