Isn’t it enough to just enter your password once to login, then receive a warning whenever you’re about to do something potentially dangerous?

If it’s such a big security risk, how come the most popular and widely used operating systems in the world and their users seem to be unaffected by it?

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You do need to authorize admin action on Windows and it causes severe security issues, because people do it without thinking all the time.

    You can also configure Linux to have this behaviour, but for security reasons it works differently out of the box. Also, some programs, such as many terminal emulators, can cache you PW so you don’t have to enter it multiple times.

    I use a U2F key for sudo and it’s just one touch. One touch you need to sit in front of my computer for.