Oh, and I can press Ctrl-C at any moment at a "sudo" prompt and try again. (Depending on your POV that might be a bug in sudo, but anyway.)
On 9/13/07, Bogdan Butnaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, but you can kill it's parent shell. You can do 'bash -c "sudo > cmd"' and kill bash. On my attempts this killed the "sudo" after a > single bad password. Sure, bash is a bit overweight and would slow > things down, but you can emulate whatever happens there with less > bloat. Or use dash, at the least. > > On 9/13/07, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For most cases it's very simple to get around this by attempting a > > password, killing the process after 100ms if it doesn't answer and > > retrying. > > > > This does not actually work, since as an user you are not allowed to > > kill a suid root process. So you can only fork processes like hell, > > which is bound by nproc. > > > > I still think that this is a sensible security measure. > > > > -- > > Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138654 > > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > > of the bug. > > > > > -- > Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O. > -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O. -- Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
