Sudo Timeout

Sudo Timeout by default remembers your password is 15 minutes. You can change the default time to whatever you want or even allow it to never expire.

Here I will show you how to set it to an expire time of 60 minutes.

Type the following:

sudo visudo or sudo vi /etc/sudoers

You will see a screen similar to this.

Now change “Defaults env_rest” to “Defaults env_reset,timestamp_timeout=60” so it looks like the following screenshot

Now save the file

:wq!

That’s all you are now done!

If you wanted Sudo Timeout to never expire you would of set the “60” to any negative number so something like “-1” or “-5” would work.

Extra

• Check out the the man page for sudoers by typing “man sudoers”
• Detailed information from Ubuntu on “RootSudo” found here