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root (or sudo) access delay instead of password (feddit.it)

submitted 1 day ago by dontblink@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Is there a way to require a user to wait a certain time instead of asking for a password every time he wants to execute a command as root or access the root / or another user account?

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[–] mina86@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Having to type sudo already acts as a molly-guard. Whatever OP wants to do I won’t stop them, but they are doing something strange.

[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

While I pretty much agree, I can definitely think of a few sporadic times doing sysadmin where things have gone so significantly wrong that an enforced sanity-check on every sudo command would have been appreciated.