Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:28:44AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Since leaving a sudo -i laying about is considered a security breach, I'm 
> amazed that the -i option doesn't accept a timeout. Say in seconds, as 
> if you think it will take 5 minutes to do the job as root, sudo -i300, 
> at the ends of which it expires.

You could set the TMOUT variable in the resulting shell, either manually
or by a setting in some rc file (e.g. /root/.bashrc if that's what the
shell reads).