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I use sudo in many systems, but I have one of them that makes me type my password each time I run sudo. All the others remember it for a while. This is debian 7.4 wheezy and sudo 1.8.5

I found this : https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/10139/how-do-i-increase-sudo-password-remember-timeout

and that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/715908/how-do-you-make-sudo-save-the-password

so I checked the dir /var/lib/sudo. I removed my old user dir and restarted sudo. I made sure when I type sudo a file is created there.

I also changed the timestamp in /etc/sudoers, I tried with -1, and 5, with no luck.

Defaults        timestamp_timeout=5

I also issued a tail -f /var/log/auth and /var/log/syslog to see if anything went wrong but nothing is written there when I run sudo.

So I added a new file /etc/sudo.conf with this line:

Debug sudo /var/log/sudo_debug all@info

Now I see something in that file each time I run sudo but no error messages I can see. It looks like everything works fine.

Any hints ? thank you very much.

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  • You have to describe your usage of sudo thoroughly. Also similar sudo questions appear repeatedly on stack exchange, so it's possible you would be much quicker with searching for them.
    – Pavel Šimerda
    Apr 27, 2014 at 8:32
  • Did you try adding Defaults timestamp_timeout=5 to /etc/sudoers where it belongs?
    – terdon ♦
    Apr 27, 2014 at 9:52
  • I am working daily on the same system you described. A few days ago was thinking that sudo was acting differently the on previous Debian version, but then I realized that I was using sudo on many different xterms. Are you having the problem when running two next commands in the same terminal window?
    – eppesuig
    Apr 27, 2014 at 11:43
  • My usage of sudo: in the same terminal I type: sudo ls ; sudo ls. I have to type my password twice. In other systems sudo remembers it for a while. I have been searching stackexchange and I tried what I learnt about sudo, but it didn't work.
    – Francesc Guasch
    Apr 27, 2014 at 16:34
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    Give us the output of your sudo policy file: sudo cat /etc/sudoers
    – hennr
    Jun 30, 2014 at 9:38

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Did you try purging sudo and then installing it again. Also there doesn't seem to be sudo 1.85 but rather 1.85p2-1 according to tracker.debian.org and in the changelog there wasn't just sudo 1.85.

Sometimes purging the package and then installing it again might do the trick.

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