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