What is the time-out for the sudo password?

[Johnneylee Rollins]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Johnneylee Rollins
> <johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>> On 09/06/10 19:06, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>>>>> Thank you. When in doubt RTFM :-) .
>>>> When tempted to say RTFM, read the CoC again.
>>> My, we are a stroppy little individual, ain't we :-) .
>> Let's not step into this, you broke CoC, you won't win any brownie
>> points dragging it out.
>
> Please let the real list admins keep order.
>
> You've been, annoyingly, citing the CoC ever since your posts were
> moderated after you many handbags-at-dawn "episodes" with Karl in
> order to win brownie points with the list admins (as if they would
> care!).
What a coincidence, I don't really care to impress popey. Blatant
disregard for the rules upsets me, because I appreciate the list a bit
more than before.
>
>
>>>> Ontopic: 5 minute timeout
>>> No-ope. 15 minutes for Ubuntu.
>> It's 5 minutes, possibly because I've upgraded through every release.
>> But it is probably more if you install lucid directly.
>
> From the sudoers manpage of 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04:
>
> timestamp_timeout
>                   Number of minutes that can elapse before sudo will ask for
>                   a passwd again.  The default is 15. ...
Mine hasn't been changed, and remains at 5 minutes. Possible silly
bug, And it probably is 15 minutes for the defacto.
>
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