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?
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?
sure. first, configure sudo to be passwordless (it’s easy to find instructions for how to do that).
then, put this in your
~/.bashrc:alias sudo='echo -n "are you sure? "; for i in $(seq 5); do echo -n "$((6 - $i)) "; sleep 1; done && echo && /usr/bin/sudo 'Now “sudo” will give you a 5 second countdown before running whatever command you ask it to.
In terms of security, an alias can be easily overridden by a user who can even choose yo use another shell which will not read .bashrc.
So this solution cannot force/require the user to comply to the delay requirement.
I was thinking maybe with a PAM module the delay can be achieved but I haven’t found one that readily does that. Maybe OP needs to implement one :)