Sudo prompting for password only once.

[Mike Schallmo]

Hello all,

I've recently configured sudo and I'm running into a problem with password prompting when invoking sudo.

We'll start this off fresh with a 'sudo -K' to clear out any timestamps out there.

I then invoke 'sudo passwd test' and I'm prompted for my user password before I'm allowed to change the test user's password.

Now, I'm expecting the sudo timestamp to expire after 5 minutes (default), but this is not happening. If I try another command with sudo after 5, 10 or even 15 minutes I am not re-prompted for my password. the command just completes. If I log off the system for 30 minutes and go back in and run another command with sudo, I still don't receive my password prompt.

It's like it's ignoring the timestamp altogether.

Any idea what's going on? I've attached my sudoers file.

[Jeff_Traigle · Accepted solution]

See the sudoers man page. You have timestamp_timeout set to a value less than 0 so it never expires.

[Mike Schallmo]

Ahhh, stupid mistake on my part! That's what you get for pulling a template from another system.

Thanks for the help!