Re: sudo:: method in tramp possible security issue

[Michael Albinus]

John Shahid <address@hidden> writes:

Hi John,

> That was the essence of my question.  What is stopping us from starting
> a new session as needed instead of keeping one around forever ?

Performance. Opening a new sudo session every single information bit
would be awful slow.

We could set a command timeout for the sudo invocation, but nobody
guarantees that it happens while data are transferred.

Best regards, Michael.