On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Square<toolma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I noticed this in my typical routine when installing AUR packages. 'makepkg > -sic' is the typical command I use, and most of the time if dependencies are > installed before building sudo doesn't time out before the install - meaning > I do not have to re-enter a password for installing the package itself. This > leaves a window where any time during the build process a command could have > been executed with sudo and it would have went through without my knowledge. > > I do realize that it should be up to the user to validate all of the > content, i.e. make sure everything is 'clean', but I thought I might > bring it up for discussion.
This is up to you to control. You can change the timeout in /etc/sudoers by using the "password_timeout" (or is it "passwd_timeout"?) option.