I'm not in favour of this. Most of the time an user won't need sudo, thus I see no reason to open this attack vector at all times. This would be much too predictable for viruses etc. to get root access.
** Changed in: sudo (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- set sudo cookie on login https://launchpad.net/bugs/30663 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs