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root (or sudo) access delay instead of password
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This is not entirely accurate; there are plenty of times when sudo does not require a password even in the default config. And there’s the nopasswd option built-in already which would already do that portion of this request.
It sounds like the OP wants to use sudo as a Molly-guard. There’s nothing wrong with that, although it may not be the right tool for the job.
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sudoalready acts as a molly-guard. Whatever OP wants to do I won’t stop them, but they are doing something strange.While I pretty much agree, I can definitely think of a few sporadic times doing sysadmin where things have gone so significantly wrong that an enforced sanity-check on every sudo command would have been appreciated.
There are plenty of ways to configure Linux to circumvent sudo. I've even seen people who log in as root by default. I do not, however, advise anyone to do that even if it's just, as you put it, a Molly Guard. It has prevented me personally from doing catastrophic things to my system on a number of occasions.