sudo issue

[joc85]

Hi All,
I was able to install everything successfully and it works great. I have one annoyance that would be great if anyone could help me with. Is there a way to stop it from asking you for the sudo password every 2 minutes with every application you open? I know it is a security risk and bla bla but i still want to do it. It is really annoying to type the password every 2 minutes.
Thanks in advance

[jankushka]

Re: sudo issue

sure.
the file you want to edit is /etc/sudoers.
which is sudo's configuration file.
instead of having this:

...
# User privilege specification
root  ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

you could have this

...
# User privilege specification
root  ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL

that is: all users that are member of the admin group will never be asked their password

or you could have this

...
# User privilege specification
root  ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
user1 ALL=(ALL) ALL
user2 ALL=(ALL) ALL
...
usern ALL=(ALL) ALL
myuser ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL

that is: have a user based configuration
you can then decide what user gets which privileges (possibly on which commands, if you wanted to)

i use method b.

hth
cheers