No, I mean it affected every use of sudo. However, adding the !tty_tickets option solved the behaviour.
I then realised it could be to do with my shell (I use fish normally). With tty_tickets back on: Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type help for instructions on how to use fish dha...@swisstph-dhardy ~> bash bash:dhardy ~(master)$ sudo visudo # here I turned tty_tickets on bash:dhardy ~(master)$ sudo echo 2 [sudo] password for dhardy: 2 bash:dhardy ~(master)$ sudo echo 2 2 bash:dhardy ~(master)$ sudo echo 2 2 bash:dhardy ~(master)$ fish Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell Type help for instructions on how to use fish dha...@swisstph-dhardy ~> sudo echo 3 [sudo] password for dhardy: 3 dha...@swisstph-dhardy ~> sudo echo 3 [sudo] password for dhardy: 3 dha...@swisstph-dhardy ~> So yes, with bash tty_tickets works fine, but with fish, it somehow thinks the commands come from separate sessions. For me, then, turning tty_tickets off is a good enough solution. I'll try to add a note into the fish users wiki. Thanks, Diggory On 1 October 2010 02:59, Jan Braun <janbr...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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 > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkylMoMACgkQVqitCWBS97tDXwCdFQlHetoWO7NVshux9OuPEJYS > wmoAn2Cx1rkijPibG5iv+EFTFgb7kEAB > =uv+A > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
