Re: sudo doesn't ask me for password anymore...

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Guillaume Pellerin wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> I'm very suprised that sudo doesn't ask me for password anymore even
> after 5 mn... It is the case on my laptop (unstable) since few days
> and on my server (unstable) since few weeks. So, I wonder if there
> could exist a KDE program or whatever tool that modifies the behavior
> of sudo in such a way... If not, I would think this is very bad !
>
> My sudoers file is like this:
> (...)
> root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
> yomguy  ALL=(ALL) ALL
>
> Remark: Reinstalling sudo does nothing and chkrootkit tells me all is OK.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Yomguy
>
>
I would start by looking in /var/log/auth.log to see what sudo
operations have been taking place lately. Perhaps you have a cron job
set up that uses sudo or something similar is happening.

If that doesn't show up anything, I'd remove both root and yomguy from
the sudoers file, and then try sudo'ing something five minutes later.

Depending on the results of that test, I might create a new user and add
that user to the sudoers file, and see how sudo works for that user.

I'd also look at my environment to see if I had any environmental
variables that might affect the use of sudo.

-- 
Kent