Hi,

Diggory Hardy schrob:
> The sudo man-page states: Once a user has been authenticated, a time stamp is
> updated and the user may then use sudo without a password for a short period 
> of
> time (15 minutes unless overridden in sudoers).
> 
> Since a few weeks this hasn't been happening on my system: every time I use
> sudo it requires authentication.

If that happens only if you switch terminals between sudo invocations,
it's this:

| What's new in Sudo 1.7.4?
| * The tty_tickets sudoers option is now enabled by default.

You might try

| Defaults !tty_tickets

in your sudoers file and see if that fixes it for you.

HTH,
    Jan
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