On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:27:51 +0000, A. Dumas wrote:

> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> [...]
>> That is why sensible people never run as root for any longer than
>> absolutely necessary, don't configure servers to run as root and don't
>> recommend running as root to newbies.
>
> Yes. However, effectively, Raspbian is a root-only OS because the
> standard user Pi doesn't need a password for sudo.
>
What version are you running?

How recently updated?

Mine, which has been running Stretch for some time, is always fully up to
date as of 'last Friday' because that is my offline backup + update day
for all my systems, Sudo always prompts for a password if it hasn't been
used for the last 5-3 minutes.

Admittedly, while ago sudo stopped prompting for passwords. That might
have been when I upgraded to Stretch - I forget exactly when, but a month
or three later sudo got updated and since then has asked for a password
as you'd expect it to.


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