What is the time-out for the sudo password?

[NoOp]

On 06/10/2010 12:16 AM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Tom H ...
>> 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.

You can check to see if perhaps you may have modified it in the past;

$ sudo visudo

check to see if you have a:

	Defaults timestamp_timeout=5

or similar in the file. Ctrl-x to get out.