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Everything sounds good. It really should be setup and used like any other linux distro.
except asking every 5 minutes. That sounds kinda sucky. Im wondering how sudo su would work?
Anyways much more info here:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-security-update-for-raspberry-pi-os/
The answer to the text of the question is: that would continue to work. sudo doesn't re-auth while a child process is still running, which in this case is su. Until su terminates, sudo doesn't have anything to say about it. To be a bit more precise, the time limit for reauth would expire, but sudo doesn't ask for authorization, and therefore wouldn't check if that timeout has elapsed, until the next invocation.
To answer the spirit of the question: you should probably be using sudo -i instead.
as someone who has a similar setup of sudo needing reauth after a while, i can tell you that it’s really no issue. keep in mind it only prompts you for a password when using sudo, meaning it prompts you when you run sudo su, and then su is just running. for as long as su keeps running, you don’t need to rerun sudo su, meaning you don’t need to reauthenticate.
in other words. the reauthentication requirement will never kill any running processes. it just requires a password when running sudo.
edit: also, i would recommend sudo su - instead, because it makes sure you get the env vars that root uses. running sudo su has lead to lots of head scratching personally. (especially on debian where /sbin binaries are not in the path when using su without the dash)
Honestly I try not to use sudo su for anything other than making sure certain cronjobs work. And even then sparingly. sudo by itself is usually good enough.
Its still wild to me how Windows does auth. I have to fight with it at work all the time. Even run as admin doesnt always work haha.
There's always sudo -i, which starts a root shell. I imagine that's untouched.
Ive used linux for a LONG time but this is the first time I learned about that one. Thanks!
There's also sudo -s if you want it to inherit the environment from the user calling sudo!
I should man sudo sometime.
‘Ee’s a witch!
Unlikely; they said man sudo, not woman sudo.
That’s a configuration change. Distributions will decide differently and they can all decide something different. Not the same issue with BSD.
oh is there a controversy with BSD?