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

[Guillaume Pellerin <guillaume.pellerin@free.fr>]

I was indeed in the sudo group. Removing my name has fixed my problem !
Kent's remark made me also realized that vnstat was launched by cron 
every 5 mn too (seen in auth.log)... but not with sudo I think.

So many thanks to both of you !

Guillaume.


roby wrote:
> That will happen when a user account belongs to the sudo group.
>
> Roby
>
>

Kent West wrote:
> 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.