Hi Saifi, This is because of the timestamp_timeout defined in /etc/sudoers When a user authenticates himself, for the timestamp duration he is not required to authenticate again
You can try sudo -k which will clear that timestamp and next invocation of sudo will ask for the password -srini On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi all: > > Noticed that many users keep typing many times on the terminals > the following pattern > > $ sudo command01 options > password: > > $ sudo command02 options > $ sudo command03 options > $ sudo command04 options > $ sudo command05 options > > As some would have noticed, sudo only asks for password for the > first time, so for command 2, 3, 4 and 5, there was no password > prompt. > > Can somebody please explain how sudo works ? > > thanks > Saifi. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
