[arch-general] makepkg security

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Square<toolman33 at 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.