technical question
Daniel Robitaille
robitaille at gmail.com
Mon May 23 07:55:25 UTC 2005
On 23/05/05, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> For a number of administration actions it is necessary for me to enter a
> password. Once this has been done this entry remains in force for some
> time before I am required to enter the password again. Can someone
> please tell me how long this delay is or, if it is machine dependant,
> how do I find out other than by trial and error? I want to carry out
> some tests and it is important for me to know this timing fairly
> accurately.
>
> Thanks in advance
it is controlled via the /etc/sudoers file and should be 15 minutes by default:
man sudoers
timestamp_timeout
Number of minutes that can elapse before sudo will ask for
a passwd again. The default is 15. Set this to 0 to
always prompt for a password. If set to a value less than
0 the user's timestamp will never expire. This can be used
to allow users to create or delete their own timestamps via
sudo -v and sudo -k respectively.
If you are going to edit that /etc/sudoers file to change that timeout
default, it is important that you use this command to do so:
sudo visudo
you have been warned :)
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