Change Sudo Timeout

[skymera]

How do i make my sudo timout shorter?

Another family member knows how to use linux and i dont want him sudo-ing my system after i have used sudo shortly before.

Thanks

[jakev383]

How do i make my sudo timout shorter?

Another family member knows how to use linux and i dont want him sudo-ing my system after i have used sudo shortly before.

Thanks

Easy enough. Default is 15 minutes.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...697#post116697

[skymera]

That default is wayyy to big.

15 mins is a long time.
Crazy, i had it at 2mins in 7.10

*Thanks for the link bro.

[skymera]

Ok i see now default line =S

 # /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

Defaults        env_reset

# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
"/etc/sudoers.tmp" 23 lines, 470 characters

Thats all i have

[bodhi.zazen]

http://sudo.rtin.bz/sudo/man/sudoers.html

timestamp_timeout

Number of minutes that can elapse before sudo will ask for a passwd again. The default is 5. 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.

Edit the file with visudo

sudo visudo

To the defaults line, add :

timestamp_timeout=2

Like this :

Defaults env_reset,timestamp_timeout=2

[aysiu]

Create a separate user account for that family member?

[skymera]

Thanks.

I edited it with nano instead.
Vim is useless.

Thanks lads.

[spiderbatdad]

er...sudoers file must be edited with vi, to avoid breakage. vi is far from useless. One must know a few basic commands in order to use the program, however.

[skymera]

I followed this

 sudo EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano visudo

So it's fine.

[philinux]

Thanks.

I edited it with nano instead.
Vim is useless.

Thanks lads.

You could just use

sudo -k

which would kill the timestamp.