How to Change Sudo Password Remembering Time in Ubuntu

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When You use 'sudo' command it will ask for password in First time and will remember password for 15 minutes. It is a security hole for sensitive systems.

You can change sudo Password Remembering Time in Ubuntu .


Open a terminal and type



$ sudo visudo


In Ubuntu, visudo uses nano text editor, and what it does is edit the / etc / sudoers.tmp


Check for the line as shown below



Defaults env_reset



Change it to


Defaults env_reset , timestamp_timeout = X


Where X is the time that we remember the sudo password, if we put 0 (zero) that we always get the request.


Finally to save the changes, press Ctrl + X and said yes.