Does sudo have to ask for my password every single time?

[malkien]

did anyone find an answer?
I have the same problem as the OP:

- sudo always asks for a password
- no timeout is configured in sudoers
- if I add a timeout to sudoers it is ignored

[bodhi.zazen]

Originally Posted by malkien

did anyone find an answer?
I have the same problem as the OP:

- sudo always asks for a password
- no timeout is configured in sudoers
- if I add a timeout to sudoers it is ignored

Personally I if am going to do system adminstration I use either

su -

or

sudo -I

In terms of configuring sudo, use visudo and configure your timestamp. If there is not such line, add one, lol.

See bbobbo's post or man sudoers

[malkien]

Originally Posted by bodhi.zazen

Personally I if am going to do system adminstration I use either
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I think this thread has seen a lot of off-topic discussion about alternatives to sudo.
while interesting, it does not answer the question.

Originally Posted by bodhi.zazen

In terms of configuring sudo, use visudo and configure your timestamp. If there is not such line, add one, lol.

See bbobbo's post or man sudoers

you quoted my post but probably didn't read it.
I did configure sudo as expected, to no effect.
I could set the timestamp timeout in other installations in the past, but in my Fedora 14 (now 15) it fails.
It behaves as if hardcoded with timestamp_timeout=0

---------- Post added at 06:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:21 PM ----------

I found the problem.
since sudo turned on the tty_tickets option by default, in the fish shell the password is requested everytime.
I tried bash and dash (no other shells installed) and they work fine.
for some reason sudo believes fish is always a different tty, but I have not investigated the problem.

I fixed the behavior in fish by adding this line to sudoers:

Defaults  !tty_tickets

[sea]

Just as experience sharing, since issue seems to solved from my understanding..

Having several registers open, a SU or SUDO didnt apply to the other registers as long there have NOT been sudo'd.
sudo diddnt apply to other shell's either, as they are just like a register either.